Article 973 of alt.sys.pdp10: Path: news1.best.com!agis!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!usc!usc!not-for-mail From: tli@skat.usc.edu (Tony Li) Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: Decwar Lives! Date: 30 Jul 1995 23:25:56 -0700 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 27 Sender: tli@skat.usc.edu Message-ID: <3vht1k$9a7@skat.usc.edu> References: <3uotuk$4h9@infinity.ccsi.com> <3vf1gj$21d@infinity.ccsi.com> <3vgjqq$cs5@aurora.cs.athabascau.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu In article , Christopher C Stacy wrote: Rather than apply archeological reasoning to figuring out computers from the 1970s, which is only 20 years ago, I would suggest simply asking the people who were there and who designed the things. If you don't know who to ask about CP/M, offhand I'd suggest contacting BYTE magazine for a start. I was certainly hacking computers around then (and before then), but I don't know much of the history of CP/M and DOS and what TOPS-10 might have had to do with it. But the responsible people around. I would recommend believing what the actual progrm authors had to say, as opposed to what anyone else might think they know or knew. Asking Gary Kildall is rather difficult right now. ;-( Will you take sorta second hand? I was a summer intern at Digital Research during 1981 and 1982. The story, as I recall it, is that CP/M was "influenced" by RT-11. Which of course, was rather heavily influenced in it's own right by Tops-10. Tony -- Good Happens -- just a whole lot less frequently Article 977 of alt.sys.pdp10: Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Path: news1.best.com!sgigate.sgi.com!genmagic!bug.rahul.net!a2i!news.erinet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!world!mbg From: mbg@world.std.com (Megan) Subject: Re: Decwar Lives! Message-ID: Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <3uotuk$4h9@infinity.ccsi.com> <3vf1gj$21d@infinity.ccsi.com> <3vgjqq$cs5@aurora.cs.athabascau.ca> <3vht1k$9a7@skat.usc.edu> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 18:00:28 GMT Lines: 13 tli@skat.usc.edu (Tony Li) writes: >The story, as I recall it, is that CP/M was "influenced" by RT-11. Which >of course, was rather heavily influenced in it's own right by Tops-10. That is my understanding as well. In fact, I remember when we were still in the mill (ML5-5 to be exact) and were experimenting with a CP/M system ... I remember we decided that it must have been modelled after V3 or V3B due to the programs and options. Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer