On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 08:04:32PM -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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> > Gary Kildal messed up Digital Research's shot when IBM came to discuss
> > licensing CP/M as the OS for the IBM PC.
>
> I know. He said he didn't do 8086, only 8080.
>
What about CP/M-86? Wasn't this available at the same time as Gates was
being courted by IBM? I got the impression that Kildall simply didn't
want to deal with IBM.
Paul
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