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From: "John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net>
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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
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"soft-eng" <softeng3456@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> "John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net> wrote in message
news:<b9gldl$9d3@library1.airnews.net>...
> ...
> >
> > As I said, get your facts straight.
>
> This is listed as "early CP/M" source.  The later CP/M
> sources are in assembler.

Kildall originally wrote CP/M at least partially to demonstrate that PL/M
was powerful enough to write a complete single-user operating system.

The listing I extracted was for CP/M 1.4, the first commonly-available
version.  CP/M 1.4 and CP/M 2.0 were written in PL/M.  The BDOS for CP/M
2.2, by far the most common version, was rewritten in assembler, but the
common utilities (PIP, STAT, and the like) were STILL in PL/M.  CP/M 3.0 did
not see nearly as wide use as CP/M 2.2, as it came out around the same time
as the IBM PC and MS-DOS.

And why the heck am I wasting my time feeding a troll?