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From: lee@gdc.portal.com (Seng-Poh Lee, Gen DataComm, +1 203 758-1811)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Who the hell wrote CP/M?
Message-ID: <7673@gdc.portal.com>
Date: 16 Mar 91 10:58:33 GMT
References: <27478@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: General DataComm, Middlebury CT
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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.

You are absolutely right. CP/M WAS based on DEC operating system, though.
Commands like PIP and STAT had identical equivalents under DEC PDP 11s.

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