Oddly enough I used to be a programmer writing for CP/M in the early 80's -
it was a good OS (given it was designed for 8 bit processors with 64Kb or
less of RAM). Had IBM gone for CPM86 or the even better MPM and maybe DR's
GEM - it is possible that today's PCs would be considerably better (as it's
likely that a 'flat' memory model would have been developed and used much
earlier etc.
Allan
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>From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: What would you do? Now: Horse racing and dog. Well sort
>of . . .
>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:00:53 -0400
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>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
>. . .
>
>
> >
> >
> > On Nov 29, 2006, at 4:48 PM, AG Schnozz wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >> Why Nikon rather than Canon? <[8^) Bill Barber
> > >
> > > Canon = Microsoft
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Nikon = Mac
> > > Olympus = CPM
> > >
> > > AG
> >
> > 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
>
>
> >
> > /mac-addict but i swing both ways ;P
> >
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