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- From: uesu03@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Lou Glassy)
- Subject: What is the legal status of CP/M?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.053012.23019@coe.montana.edu>
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- Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:30:12 GMT
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- For those of you who have been long-term CP/Mer's, a few
- questions about CP/M:
-
- Is CP/M in the public domain now? Does DRI still own it? If
- not, is anyone still actively developing it (CP/M) or still
- developing applications for it?
-
- My reason for asking is this: I'm working on some software
- (a subset Fortran-90 compiler) that will run using a
- pcode-interpreter program. I'm wondering if it'd make sense for
- me to eventually port a version of it to CP/M.
-
- Just curious... The first micro I ever used was an Apple-2, c.
- 1979. We'd look at that machine (w/ 48K of RAM) and think,
- "Gee, who could ever *really* use that much memory!!!" :-)
-
- Often I get the sense that despite all the hardware advances of
- the last 15 years (many), and despite the software advances
- (few), the things ordinary people really *use* and *need*
- computers for, really haven't changed all that much. I read &
- hear regularly how GUI's make people more 'productive' (whatever
- *that* means), and trade rags commonly try to sell me the idea
- that I need a 15 ziloMIP box on my desk with enough RAM on board
- to sink the Titanic...
-
- Is there still a market for CP/M machines and software? Has MS-DOS
- (+MS Windows, +IBM OS/2, + ??) made CP/M obsolete? Or just raised
- everyone's expectations so much that CP/M couldn't compete?
-
- (You know, the line that you'll just DIE if you don't get
- 256-color VGA with razzle-dazzle mouse-button thingumbobs with
- your checkbook balancing program...)
-
- Ciao --
-
- Lou.
- --
- Lou Glassy (uesu03@giac1.oscs.montana.edu) Eccl. 9:10
-