Certainly even the earliest of CP/M releases offered more
than the North Star DOS that would've shipped with thier disk
systems? This system included DOS ver. 2 and BASIC ver. 6, Release 3
and is also copyright 1977.
Jeff
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> > I show that DR copyrighted CP/M in May, 1976. Around what
>>time did they actually start shipping it and what was the first
> >'usable' release?
>
>There was 1.2 but usable is not what I'd call it. I'd say 1.4
>was the first commercially viable version but, 1.3 was the
>first complete working one.
>
>Allison
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