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From: yeti <yeti@tilde.institute>
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Subject: Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 11:51:32 +0042
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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.

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

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