Hi Eric, Hum, I wonder where Gary got his ideas? Didn't he use a DEC PDP-nn for his initial PL/M compiler to get the first CP/M built in the first place? I'd like to find out more about TOPS-10, OS-8 and RT-11. Very interesting indeed!
Kip Koon computer...@sc.rr.com http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Eric Smith > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 1:28 AM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: DOS code in CP/M? Revisited... > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Kip Koon <computer...@sc.rr.com> wrote: > > Back in my twenties, I was reading about CP/M in the college library where > > I attended > thinking, "Wow! CP/M looks EXACTLY like > MS-DOS!" > > And if you'd read about DEC operating systems, you'd have thought that CP/M > looks like TOPS-10, OS-8, and RT-11, though not quite > as "EXACTLY" as MS-DOS looks like CP/M. > > "Bad artists copy, great artists steal." - Pablo Picasso
