RIP cpemma
one thing I did see when looking earlier was he had a blurb about his user name--referencing CP/M, I think he said it was the best OS ever
Worth a smile I figure.What happened to cpemma & http://www.cpemma.co.uk ??
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The first microcomputer I ever used had the CP/M operating system and Microsoft Fortran & Basic compilers. All of them were excellent products. They fit into something like 12KB memory so that there was enough space left over to hold user programs in a 16KB machine.
The story is that the IBM guys didn't know that Gary Kildall made CP/M. They thought Bill Gates did. They went and asked him if would be willing to license CP/M. Bill Gates apparently told them he only made the compilers that ran on top of CP/M and gave them Gary Kildall's address and phone number (in a proverbial last act of kindness, they say). But Kildall was making enough money selling copies of CP/M and he couldn't be bothered to meet the IBM guys. So, they went back to Bill Gates and asked him if he could make a CP/M for them. He said "of course," and, with that, ended up stealing all of IBM's monopoly on the computer industry.
Uday
The story is that the IBM guys didn't know that Gary Kildall made CP/M. They thought Bill Gates did. They went and asked him if would be willing to license CP/M. Bill Gates apparently told them he only made the compilers that ran on top of CP/M and gave them Gary Kildall's address and phone number (in a proverbial last act of kindness, they say). But Kildall was making enough money selling copies of CP/M and he couldn't be bothered to meet the IBM guys. So, they went back to Bill Gates and asked him if he could make a CP/M for them. He said "of course," and, with that, ended up stealing all of IBM's monopoly on the computer industry.
Uday