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From: <iddibhai@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, 29 November, 2006 09:08 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: What would you do? Now: Horse racing and dog. Well sort of
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> On Nov 29, 2006, at 4:48 PM, AG Schnozz wrote:
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> >> Why Nikon rather than Canon? <[8^) Bill Barber
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> > Canon = Microsoft
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> > Nikon = Mac
> > Olympus = CPM
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> > AG
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> what the *heck* is cpm?
Found here
http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/CPM+operating+system
"(Control Program for Microprocessors) A single user operating system for
the 8080 and Z80 microprocessors from Caldera. Created by Gary Kildall of
Digital Research, CP/M had its heyday in the early 1980s. It was an
unsophisticated program that didn't instill much confidence in users, yet it
was a major contributor to the personal computer revolution. Because the
industry never standardized on a CP/M disk or video format, software
publishers had to support dozens of screen displays and floppy disk
versions. This chaos ensured that IBM would set the standard with its PC
very quickly.
"Although IBM asked Kildall to provide the operating system for its new PC,
he didn't agree to certain demands. IBM went to Microsoft, which purchased
QDOS from Seattle Computer Products and turned it into PC-DOS and MS-DOS.
The rest is history. The irony is that Microsoft's DOS was modeled after
CP/M. Digital Research was later acquired by Novell and then Caldera."
jh
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> /mac-addict but i swing both ways ;P
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