Re: Santa Cruz Operation settles Lotus lawsuit

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From: Bill Vermillion
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1991 14:03

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In article <1991Jul2.024702.3347@weyrich.UUCP> orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
>In article <1991Jun25.161701.19221@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:

>>When Seattle Computer Products introduced their 8086 based S-100 system
>>board they supported it with a derivative of CPM.  

....

>Was SCP's product a 'derivative work' of CP/M (in the legal sense that the
>CP/M source code was modified to obtain it), or was it a clone of CP/M
>(i.e. re-developed from specifications without reusing the source code)?
 
>My impression was that it was the latter. No?

And my impression was it was the former.   I am going to have to do some
digging on that one.

I was considering one of the SCP S-100 board's at one time - but I don't
know if I have any of the early '80's info anywhere anymore - and if I do -
where is it??

Anyone else care to improve our memories with some hard facts :-)

bill
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Bill Vermillion - UUCP: ...!tarpit!bilver!bill
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From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
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Subject: Re: Santa Cruz Operation settles Lotus lawsuit
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Date: 3 Jul 91 14:03:16 GMT
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