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Article #8284Re: Who the hell wrote CP/M?
From: Jeff Sicherman
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1991 20:45
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1991 20:45
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In article <27478@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>A friend and I got in a massive argument over who wrote the CP/M operating
>system. He claimed that it was "DEC" but I stated that it was DRI. I
>assumed all along that:
This is the kind of stuff you argue about ??
>
>1. CP/M was written by Gary Kildall.
Yes
>2. CP/M was written by DRI
Well, some/much of the original work was done when he worked at/for intel
but he supposedly couldn't interest them in it so he left at some point to
continue development and marketing himself.
>3. DRI is NOT related to DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation)
It's not but CP/M is heavily influenced by certain aspects of the PDP
operating systems used on DEC's early minicomputers.
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