On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 19:12 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: > > cp/m had all kinda sort and list commands. I'm just not sure which would > > have been better, to be under the evil domination of Digital or > > Microsoft. <grins> cp/m ][ was pretty nice, though. It did pretty much > > whatever I wanted it to do. Ric > > Hey, be nice! First off, remember Gary Kildall's company was Digital > Research, Inc.--NOT Digital Equipment Corp. (at the time chaired by > Ken Olson). > > I worked for DRI on CP/M and MP/M. There were some nomenclature and UI > similarities between DEC's RT-11 or RSTS and CP/M, but they were NOT the > same company--not by a long shot. They were even on different coasts! > > IBM went with Microsoft because they arrived for a meeting with Gary, > but he was out flying his airplane and missed it. IBM got ticked off > and called Microsoft. We've never been sure if IBM was a day early > (as Gary always claimed) or Gary screwed up his calendar. Either one is > as likely as the other (IBM can be petulant and Gary could be very > scatterbrained at times). I bought just about every Televideo model made from Gov. Surplus. God, I forget the monster they built that served the 8 bit machines running cp/m and the 16 bit machines running cp/m86, but it ran MP/M and could handle either client. Pretty slick!! Televideo, when the old man ran the company made some very nice handling machines. Excellent keyboards. Nice nice stuff! I had a collection of a pile of cp/m machines, Altos, Televideo, Kaypro, an original ozzie, 3 Imsai machines, plus quite a few I had never heard of before. Got 'em for $10 apiece at Gov Surplus, just to play with. Remember Irv Hoff?? I talked to him on the phone a few weeks before he died of cancer. His contributions to the modem world were priceless. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
