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From: rob.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Robert Rittenhouse)
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Subject: Re: Who the hell wrote CP/M?
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Date: 16 Mar 91 16:46:31 GMT
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jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:

> A friend and I got in a massive argument over who wrote the CP/M operating
> system.  He claimed that it was "DEC" but I stated that it was DRI.  I
> assumed all along that:
> 
> 1.  CP/M was written by Gary Kildall.
> 2.  CP/M was written by DRI
> 3.  DRI is NOT related to DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation)
> 
> If I am in err, pleae let me know.
> 
You are correct. Gary Killdall, (Intergalactic) Digital Research Inc.
CP/M was loosely based on a DEC PDP-11 OS (I think RSTS) tho.
Rob R.
> Brian