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Old 5th August 2008
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
I enjoyed having it because it also came with CP/M -- the precursur to what became PC-DOS/MS-DOS.
That not really quite true. CP/M was Gary Kildall's baby (through his company Digital Research); the tale of how he snubbed the IBM contingent when they were looking for an operating system for their new computer is well known (he was allegedly out flying his airplane).

MS-DOS came from QDOS ("quick and dirty operating system) from Seattle Computer Products (mainly S-100 bus based); they were more receptive to IBM than Kildall was, and a commercial arrangement was reached.

I still have copies of CP/M-80, -86 and MP/M 8-16 on the shelf with complete documentation.
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