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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada -- a popular language?
Date: 1997/04/21
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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 ....