On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:04:42 +0200 Jean-Louis Oneto <[email protected]> wrote:
> The > DRI CP/M80 then CP/M86 were nothing but vaporware, I think you must have CP/M and CP/M-86 conflated with something else. CP/M-80 was anything *but* "vapourware." In the mid-70's to early 80's, 8080- and Z-80 systems ran on nothing *but* CP/M. Oh, there were a few other also-rans, but they didn't amount to much. Micropolis, for example, had its own OS (MDOS), for example. I ran both CP/M-80 1.4, CP/M 2.2 and CP/M Plus (aka: CP/M 3) operating systems, and, in fact, wrote quite a good deal of code for CP/M-80 systems, including contributing to the original XMODEM and MINICBBS projects. I ran one of the first, if not *the* first, 24x7 RCP/M systems in the state of Michigan. Nor was CP/M-86 vapourware. It was short-lived, because Kildall was way too late to the game, but it did exist. IIRC, the DEC Rainbow dual-booted CP/M-86 and DOS? > only the MP/M86 > (multitasking variant of CP/M86) never had a real existence. I think I ever only saw a single MP/M system in the wild. > When > Microsoft bought DRI, [snip] Microsoft never bought Digital Research International. (Looking...) It was acquired by Novell in 1981. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php>. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
