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From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
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Subject: Re: Who the hell wrote CP/M?
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.174555.21577@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 16 Mar 91 17:45:55 GMT
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In article <27478@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> 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.
>

A little tidbit that may be more folklore than fact, is that Digital
Research Inc (DRI) was once known as Intergalactic Digital Research.
Only when they became moderately successful, and deemed the Intergalactic
portion of their name to be silly, did they drop it.  And yes, DRI
is, to my knowledge, completely unrelated to DEC.  DRI is alive and
well selling DR DOS 5.0 and GEM, otherwise known as CP/M :-)

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Kaleb Keithley                        kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

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