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From: paul@athertn.Atherton.COM (Paul Sander)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: CP/M C compilers
Message-ID: <33487@athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 12 Nov 90 22:13:27 GMT
References: <16403@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <7eVgs1w163w@ijpc.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@Atherton.COM (Paul Sander)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <7eVgs1w163w@ijpc.UUCP> ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) writes:
>wilker@descartes.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) writes:
>> If you want a legal copy of CP/M, check garage sales, versions for
>> Apple or Commodore. As far as I know, sales to individuals of  
>> CP/M 2.2 or 3.0 are no longer possible in the US.
>> Clarence Wilkerson
>
>It thought that Digital Research withdrew all of its support for
>CP/M years ago.  I would think that they would have relinquished
>their rights because they don't support it.  If they still
>distribute it, but don't support it, then something is SERIOUSLY
>(IMHO) with DRI's policies, mainly because most of its work is
>devoted to DR-DOS and GEM-86 and GEM-68k.  Anyone care to rebut?

Digital Research no longer supports CP/M, but they have sold the rights to
another firm that still has copies of CP/M 2.2 and 3.0.  I believe the name
of the company is "Johnson and Lord", and they are located in the Pacific
Grove or Monterey area.  This firm still sells 8 inch floppies containing
vanilla CP/M, with all of DR's documentation.  No specific vendors' ports are
supported; you'd have to go to the vendor for support for their particular
version.  Prices are also reminiscent of DR's.

By the way, they offer no support or update policy on the software.

It's been long enough that I am unsure if I got the name of the company
correct.  I'll try to dig up the correct name and telephone number for them
and post them later.
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