Jim Seymour wrote:
> Nor was CP/M-86 vapourware. It was short-lived, because Kildall was
> way too late to the game, but it did exist. IIRC, the DEC Rainbow
> dual-booted CP/M-86 and DOS?
CP/M-86 was also one of the 3 operating systems that were initially
available with the IBM PC. The third wa
Jean-Louis Oneto wrote:
> When Microsoft bought DRI
Microsoft didn't buy DRI. They bought Q-DOS from Seattle Computer
Products. Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M later took MS to court and
proved that MS-DOS contained directly copied CP/M code.
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Jean-Louis Oneto wrote:
> The
> DRI CP/M80 then CP/M86 were nothing but vaporware,
I think you must have CP/M and CP/M-86 conflated with something
else. CP/M-80 was anything *but* "vapourware." In the mid-70's to
early 80's, 8080- and Z-80 systems ran on not
The first floppies where 8", single sided, single density and were lade for
punch card substitute: the 80kB capacity was then equivalent to a rack of 1000
80 columns punched cards. That was in the early 1970's. Before that, there was
14" amovible HDD, with a capacity of 2.5 MB, made by several m
