>First off your dates are grossly in error. MS in the persona of Gates
>was involved in putting basic on the altair via MITS. When CP/M was
>gaining ground as the dominent 8080/z80 OS microsoft was the dominent
>language supplier. The majik system was a z80 running cp/m and MSbasic
>compiler, MAC and L80, and maybe Multiplan.
Yep. I know that. But MS dominance didn't exactly happen overnight. They
didn't have much of a hold in anything until the IBM PC took off...
>Apple: Apple softcard combind package of CP/M and MS languges and a z80.
>TRS80: Disk basic.
>PDP-11: Didn't MS do a unix varient?
>UNix... they did have a hand in a PC unix and apps for it.
You mean Xenix?
Ciao,
Tim D. Hotze
Received on Mon Jun 15 1998 - 11:16:30 BST
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