[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?

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