Disk Control Program

DCP ( D isk C ontrol P rogram) is one of Robotron in the DDR marketed diskette drive or hard-oriented operating system . DCP offers options for managing data, supports device-independent input and output and has a command language for creating command files ( batch processing ).

The system supports up to 4 floppy disk drives (prototypes of the EC 1834 ), 640 kByte main memory and text graphics. It also offers support for up to 2 MFM hard drives (only DCP1700 version 3.3 and DCP 3.3). There was also a special graphics program called GEDIT-M / 16, which supported the robotron K6405 graphics tablet.

DCP was available for two different Robotron computers: as a variant called "DCP1700" specially adapted to the hardware of the A 7150 workstation computer and as DCP 3.x for the EC 1834 personal computer. The latter variant also works on western computers, with the exception of the driver for the Robotron hardware, without major restrictions. DCP was initially available in version 3.2 and later in version 3.3.

In the early 1990s, various magazines reported that DCP 3.3 was an illegally adapted version of MS-DOS . Corresponding references to Microsoft can be found in individual binary files of DCP 3.3. Robotron presented DCP as its own operating system at CeBIT - just a few meters from the Microsoft stand.

See also

• Disk Operating System

• For binary-compatible DOS operating systems, see → PC-compatible DOS

Web links

• Software for the DCP operating system
• Operating system documentation for DCP1700 V3.20 ( PDF ; 98 kB)
• System manual for DCP1700 V3.20 ( PDF ; 366 kB)
• Basic for DCP ( PDF ; 139 kB)

Individual evidence

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