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From: geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Santa Cruz Operation settles Lotus lawsuit
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.074048.8539@ITcorp.com>
Date: 24 Jun 91 07:40:48 GMT
References: <1991Jun22.223038.4257@weyrich.UUCP>
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In article <1991Jun22.223038.4257@weyrich.UUCP> orville@weyrich.UUCP
(Orville R. Weyrich) writes:

> I would love to see MS try that -- MS-DOS itself started out as a clone of
> DR's popular [at the time] CP/M operating system. But of course, DR can't
> complain too loudly itself, as CP/M is very reminiscent of DEC's RSX
> (and perhaps other earlier DEC operating systems).

This claim is rather weak, to say the least.  Even a cursory
comparison of DOS V1 with CP/M would show that it's not a clone.  A
bit of investigation into the history would support this conclusion.
As for CP/M being reminiscent of RSX, the only similarity is in the
name of the program "PIP".  On the other hand, CP/M is *very* similar
to RT-11;  it's quite clear that Kildall had been using RT-11 shortly
before he wrote CP/M and borrowed a number of ideas from that system.
-- 
	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   uunet!desint!geoff