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From: "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com>
Organization: Arachne Fan Club
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:29:04 -0500
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:12:39 +0100, Ben A L Jemmett wrote:

>> Even CP/M  86, Kildall's alternative for the original IBM-PC, was
>> released *after* M$'s PC-DOS

> It was written at the same time, but was in testing for longer -> fewer
> bugs.  It was just a port of CP/M-80 though, so technically the system was
> around for more than half a decade before MS-DOS.

 Precisely right.
After-all, where do think Bill Gates *stole* the idea and SRC code which
later became M$-DOS. :-)



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