On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > (Of course, Balmer and Gates had ripped off someone else's OS source > code in the first place (can't remember who's specifically at the moment)
Seattle Computer Products. Not actually ripped-off, but licensed under very favourable terms by MS. > to revise into a version for a 16-bit processor (Intel 8080) They didn't have to revise it as it was already designed for the 8086. SCP created it for their own hardware because Digital Research's promised 8086 version of CP/M was very late in coming. (When CP/M-86 finally arrived, too little, too late, it died in the marketplace.) Microsoft just rebadged "Quick and Dirty OS" and used it pretty much as-is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
