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From: Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution
Date: 12 Aug 2024 15:18:11 GMT
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On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 15:03:21 +0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:

> yeti  <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
>>"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.
> 
> You could get CP/M-86 with the PC for a small fee, or PC-DOS for free,

PC DOS was charged for by IBM, as I remember. Most other vendors bundled 
MS-DOS (which was slightly different)



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