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   Bob Eager to Scott Dorsey   
   Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the micro   
   12 Aug 24 15:18:11   
   
   From: news0009@eager.cx   
      
   On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 15:03:21 +0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
      
   > yeti   wrote:   
   >>"internetado"  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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