@mint Golly even at the time around 1985 there was a lot of argument about that. DOS was a simplified Xenix DOS 1.0 and I think 2.0 had the ability to either operate in DOS or Unix mode with a small config.sys tweak as I recall.
You could run several CP/M instances on an AT mchine simultaneously if you wanted.
usoft's unhappiness with Xenix drove a lot of the move toward the VMS direction, where there was apparently more cooperation.
Nobody can ever agree on this so it's ok. 🙂