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Article #1919Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium...
From: Suraj Gulrajani
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 14:01
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 14:01
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Jon Hirota (jonh@icat.com) wrote: | > > I never heard of the acronym - CPM. I assume it must not be | mainstream. | > | > "Those who don't learn from history..." | > | > CP/M once held roughly the same place in personal computing that MS/DOS does | > now. It was just smaller and ran on slower, smaller machines. 8080 class. | > Way back in the dim, misty mid 1970's. | > | > Whatever do they teach kids in school these days? | It's funny that many DOS users don't know that their beloved OS is based | heavily on CPM. In fact Ver 1.0 of MS-DOS looked like a recompiled CPM | with a few modifications. Believe it or not, MS-DOS actually WAS a recompiled version of CP/M.. !! Bill Gates stole the CP/M code (bought it cheap, re-compiled, and sold to IBM with copyright, etc. to himself... ) So CP/M lives even in '95, eh? :)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mozart.inet.co.th!suraj From: suraj@mozart.inet.co.th (Suraj Gulrajani) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium... Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Date: 3 Sep 1995 14:01:35 GMT Organization: Internet Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand. Message-ID: <42ccfv$5kd@senior.nectec.or.th> References: <DDwHG2.G9H@dorsai.org> <41tsct$33a@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <jonh-0109951158150001@204.96.90.103> NNTP-Posting-Host: mozart.inet.co.th X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]