At 07:16 PM 6/15/98 +0300, you wrote:
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.
Yes, XENIX. They also made it (XENIX) for the Tandy 6000 and for some
Zenith computers (248?).
Joe