13 Dec
2011
13 Dec
'11
9:10 p.m.
I wrote:
Kildall tried to sell CP/M to Intel, and Intel
didn't buy it,
apparently because Kildall didn't want to sell them exclusive
rights. That resulted in the creation of ISIS as an Intel
exclusive.
allison wrote:
I think you re hybridizing what happened with Intel
and later with
Microsoft.
I don't think so. AFAIK, Microsoft never had anything to do with PL/M.
Certainly they had nothing to do with the creation of either ISIS or CP/M.
I wrote:
Possibly CP/M wasn't offered for sale to the
public until after
shipments of ISIS started, but I don't really know the first
ship dates of either.
allison wrote:
I saw v1.3 in 1975 down in Atlantic city (PCC). ISIS
was definately
later.
ISIS-II was later. It is not clear that the original ISIS was later.
ISIS ran on the MDS-800, and probably on the 8080-equipped Intellec 8/80
before that.