Realtime Disk Operating System
RDOS

    A Data General operating system
   developed in the 1970s or 1980s.  When used in conjuction with
   a BASIC (e.g. Business Basic) it could support 16
   concurrent users at the record locking level and two
   printers all on 128K memory.

   Reputedly IBM wanted to license this for the first IBM PC
   but DG turned them down so they went to Microsoft instead.
   How different the world could have been.

   [Before or after IBM wanted CP/M?]

   (1997-11-23)