If I remember right, Gary Kildall(DR pres.) blew off the IBM people when
they came to talk about CP/M and IBM. He was out flying his plane.
This is WAY off the track, but at the time Apple was getting going, the
company I worked for was one of the original Apple OEM's. We used them as an
early data acquisition device. First product was Apple, then we added a
Cromemco Z-80-based system.
The Z-80 (2MHz) was twice the speed of the Apple!
Brian P. Huber
> Nick,
> Thanks for the info. What you mention is essentially
> what I was told
> by members of the Sysops association I belonged too and what
> I have since
> read. The extent of my programing was modifying insert files
> for Modem 7 and
> IMP. In regards to the CP/M plagiarism, Digital Research was
> very tight with
> CP/M. They did not care to have any copies made that were not
> paid for. That
> is also one of the reason that IBM had difficulties dealing
> with them. Seattle
> Software had a valid license for CP/M and that is what
> Microsoft bought and
> sold to IBM. I was a CP/M diehard, probably something to do with my
> intelligence level or not having better sense to read the
> writing on the wall.
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