From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada -- a popular language?
Date: 1997/04/21
Date: 1997-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.861595085@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bc4d9c$f629c220$f4f582c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com
Nick said (of the original PC)
<<To expand slightly, it came 'bundled' with CP/M, the original
multi-platform microcomputer operating system, made by a company called
Digital Research. How fortunes change. How many people know about Digital
Research nowadays?>>
Nope, that is completely wrong, I have my original receipts for my PC-1,
bought on the 4th day after the announcement if you want proof.
The PC I bought came with NO operating system, and when I asked about this
(in the IBM store -- they were in the retail business then), I was opinted
to a shelf of operating systems.
I had a choice of 3
MS-DOS for $40
CPM for $200
UCSD Pascal (don't know pprice)
I bought the first two, and never oopened the CPM (I still have the
shrink wrapped package -- perhaps it is a collectors item :-)
Nick, either you did not buy a machine at that time, or your memory
is failing you ....
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[not found] <01bc45df$10fa6480$d27d8ea1@AaBbCcDd>
1997-04-10 0:00 ` Ada -- a popular language? Stanley Allen
1997-04-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-11 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1997-04-11 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1997-04-11 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-04-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-14 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-04-13 0:00 ` Bill Keen
[not found] ` <5ivrre$en0@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <5j4kfi$1g1@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-04-16 0:00 ` Byron
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1997-04-21 0:00 ` Dave Smith
1997-04-23 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Latin1 Peter Hermann
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Ada -- a popular language? Michael Feldman
[not found] ` <5ivta3$en0@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
[not found] ` <5j04g7$42s@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
[not found] ` <5j11vb$h86$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1997-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <JSA.97Apr16143427@alexandria>
[not found] ` <5j4kli$1g1@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <dewar.861244012@merv>
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Tom Wheeley
1997-04-12 0:00 ` Ingemar Ragnemalm
1997-04-16 0:00 Adrian B.Y. Hoe
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1997-04-16 0:00 Adrian B.Y. Hoe
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