Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution

From	yeti <yeti@tilde.institute>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution
Date	2024-08-12 11:51 +0042
Organization	Democratic Order of Pirates International (DOPI)
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"internetado" <internetado@fanless.alt119.net> writes:

> Had Digital Research, the company CP/M
> creator Gary Kildall set up to sell CP/M, accepted the deal with IBM
> to make CP/M the default operating system for the then newly-created
> IBM PC, we'd be living in a very different world today.

CP/M was reimplemented by Seattle Computer Products as "Quick and Dirty
Operation System"[0] and later Microsoft bought it and stripped the
"Quick and" and kept DOS as name.  Shouldn't that once and forever
explain how to read the "D" of "DOS"?  o;-)

I used CP/M-Z80 for a while and when MSDOS appeared, I avoided it for a
long time, but when I finally had to do some stuff on it, I immediately
felt kind of at home due to the similar structure of the OS function
calls.  That felt strange.  Maybe even a bit shady.

____________

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_and_Dirty_Operating_System

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50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution "internetado" <internetado@fanless.alt119.net> - 2024-08-11 18:38 -0300
  Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-08-12 11:51 +0042
    Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-08-12 15:03 +0000
      Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2024-08-12 15:18 +0000
    Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-12 23:09 +0000
  Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-08-12 08:24 -0700
    Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution D <noreply@mixmin.net> - 2024-08-12 17:12 +0100
      Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-08-12 10:04 -0700
        Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2024-08-12 21:45 +0100
        Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution D <noreply@mixmin.net> - 2024-08-12 21:53 +0100
          Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-08-13 08:40 -0700
            Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-13 21:51 +0000
              Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-08-13 21:47 -0700
                Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-14 05:41 +0000
                Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-08-14 13:34 -0300
                Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-08-14 19:58 +0000
    Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-12 23:12 +0000

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