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- From: fmouse@wixer.cactus.org (Lindsay Haisley)
- Subject: Re: What is the legal status of CP/M?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.011121.2764@wixer.cactus.org>
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- References: <1993Jan4.053012.23019@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 01:11:21 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.053012.23019@coe.montana.edu> uesu03@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Lou Glassy) writes:
- >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?
-
- DRI was recently bought up by Novell, so you might inquire of them regarding
- proprietary rights, etc. Yes, there are a few folks still actively
- developing stuff for CP/M, or actually for the upward compatable equivalent
- of it, ZCPR34 which runs on the same machines. There are a number of BBS's
- around the world (known as Z-nodes) which feature ZCPR3 software and
- exchange information with interested users. CP/M has been religated to
- pretty much of a hobby status, and most of the Z system folks are pretty
- much like ham radio operators - the do it for fun and are enthusiastic about
- it. I run a CP/M BBS (Z-node #77) and am still an advocate of CP/M as an
- educational operating system since it's pretty completely known and quite
- transparent if you get down to studying it. As one of my CP/M
- correspondants said, "I studied MS-DOS to learn how applications work - I
- studied CP/M to learn how computers work". There is even a magazine - The
- Computer Journal -which devotes considerable space to CP/M and ZCPR3 topics.
- I suggest you check on to Z-node #3 and explore. The number is 617-965-7259.
- Jay Sage, the friendly sysop thereof, also owns Sage Microsystems East which
- markets a number of fine CP/M and ZCPR3 products, some of which Jay has
- rescued from a one way journey to the ash heap of computer history.
-
- I strongly suggest that if you plan to do any software development for CP/M
- you contact Jay and others in the Z System community and make your product
- ZCPR3 aware, since the improvements in ZCPR3 over DRI's original CP/M are
- very signifigant and intelligent.
-
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