9 May
2024
9 May
'24
8:45 p.m.
OK
This seems to be the one that the list choked on
(possibly due to special quote characters?
On Thu, May 9, 2024, 2:07 AM david barto via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
At Ken Bowles retirement from UCSD (Ken was the lead
of the UCSD Pascal
Project) he related a story that IBM came to UCSD after being "rejected"
by DR to see if the Regents of the University would license UCSD Pascal (the
OS and the language) to IBM for release on the new hardware IBM was
developing. The UC Regents said "no"
He was quite sad that history took the very different course.
well, it wasn't quite a "rejected by DR". But, the culture clash certainly
did
strengthen IBM's desire for CP/M alternatives. And, they DID cut a deal with
Softech/UCSD-Regents to have UCSD P-system as one of the original operating
systems for the 5150.
The "very different course" of the market going with CP/M and MS-DOS, rather
than P-System, was due to many factors.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com