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From: doug@netcom.COM (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Santa Cruz Operation settles Lotus lawsuit
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.042121.3737@netcom.COM>
Date: 25 Jun 91 04:21:21 GMT
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In article <1991Jun24.074048.8539@ITcorp.com> geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
>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.

That doesn't say much for RT-11!         ;-)

I did like PIP, though, even coming *from* a UNIX background originally
(about the *only* thing that I could say something good about...)
The idea of being able to apply wildcards to "not-yet-existing files" is
a nice one, which unfortunately doesn't fit the otherwise-powerful Unix
paradigm for wildcards. I can't say that DOS has really taken off and run
with that 1975 idea, though. (sigh)

Digression? What digression?
	Doug
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