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In article <42ccfv$5kd@senior.nectec.or.th>,
suraj@mozart.inet.co.th (Suraj Gulrajani) wrote:
> 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? :)

Not entirely - He bought a CP/M look alike from a Seattle company.
Brushed it up a little bit, and called it MS-DOS. I think it's
original name was something along "Quick and Dirty DOS".


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Terje Bergesen - Bergesen Data
"No users  of microcomputers wants multitasking,  nor would they be
 able to use it. All they would ever do with it would be background
 printing, and you can do that under DOS."  --- Bill Gates.