[email protected] (McKown, John) writes: > What, no mention of CP/M-86? I don't think that MP/M ever had a x86 > version. I do remember running Pick on my XT clone. Now that was a > weird beastie. And you totally ignored things like the Amiga. I loved > what I saw of that software. I wish now that my boss at the time > hadn't convinced me to go with an XT clone.
re: http:/www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#98 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? other folklore trivia from silicon valley ... long ago and far away at some silicon valley watering hole gathering of current & former people working on vm370 ... talking to some vm370 sysprog that had worked at another vendor ... described how he had done the mp/m implementation. for another article drifing back to the original post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#83 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Obama Was Right: The Government Invented the Internet; Don't believe the outrageous conservative claim that every tech innovation came from private enterprise. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/07/who_invented_the_internet_the_outrageous_conservative_claim_that_every_tech_innovation_came_from_private_enterprise_.html above also references: Brief History of the Internet http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/internet-51/history-internet/brief-history-internet History of the Internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet a similar discussion played out in a.f.c. in the late 90s ... part of the posts in that discussion archived here http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm as an aside ... during the 90s, the RFC (internet standards) "editor" (Jon Postel) ... use to let me do part of the updates for the periodic STD1 other posts in this thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#84 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#87 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#88 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#89 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#90 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#93 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#94 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#97 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
