[GreenKeys] CP/M history -

[Jack Rubin]

Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:00:19 +0100
From: "Lester Veenstra" <m0ycm at veenstras.com>
Subject: RE: [GreenKeys] ITTY Is Up
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Which if course was written as a student exercise at NPG Monterrey

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Lester is one of the last people I'd want to contradict, but his response to
Randy is flat out wrong. CP/M was written by Gary Kildall while he was an
instructor at the Naval Post Graduate School but it was hardly a student
exercise. Kildall was an accomplished programmer and consultant to Intel
from the birth of the microprocessor. His first work for them included
compilers for the 8008 written in 1973.

The history of CP/M and Digital Research, the company that Gary formed to
market it, is available in many places on the web but one of the most
comprehensive and up-to-date resources is offered by Herb Johnson at
http://retrotechnology.net/dri/d_dri_history.html#summary .

I'm a radio/RTTY newbie but I've been using CP/M since the mid '70s and
still have it running on several vintage and modern systems. It's also alive
and well on several simulators which run on modern PCs if anyone feels a
yearning for the good/bad old days!

73 de KC9HVE,
Jack