OK This seems to be the one that the list choked on (possibly due to special quote characters?
On Thu, May 9, 2024, 2:07 AM david barto via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
At Ken Bowles retirement from UCSD (Ken was the lead of the UCSD Pascal Project) he related a story that IBM came to UCSD after being "rejected" by DR to see if the Regents of the University would license UCSD Pascal (the OS and the language) to IBM for release on the new hardware IBM was developing. The UC Regents said "no" He was quite sad that history took the very different course.
well, it wasn't quite a "rejected by DR". But, the culture clash certainly did strengthen IBM's desire for CP/M alternatives. And, they DID cut a deal with Softech/UCSD-Regents to have UCSD P-system as one of the original operating systems for the 5150. The "very different course" of the market going with CP/M and MS-DOS, rather than P-System, was due to many factors.
-- Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
