Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!Tli@Usc-Eclb.ARPA From: Tony Li Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Reply to: cp/m standards Message-ID: <7621@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 22:52:24 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7621 Posted: Mon Jan 21 22:52:24 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Jan-85 04:37:48 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 17 As an ex-DRIP (DRI person), lemme add my two cents worth. Yes, DRI has given up on CP/M. CP/M+ is the last OS product that DRI intends to market for the 8080/Z80 machines. Instead they're out to try to beat Microsoft with things like Concurrent-PCdos. I really find it too bad. Not so much that they want to cover the upper level machines, but that they want to 'beat' Microsoft. It means, that for the rest of their corporate life, they'll be copying Microsoft and AT+T (Unix). It's really too bad, because there are lots of talented people in DRI who just aren't being heard. Moral: If you start a company, don't be 'market driven'. You're then a slave to your market. More power to Echelon, Tony ;-)