Santa Cruz Operation settles Lotus lawsuit

[Geoff Kuenning]

In article <1991Jun22.223038.4257 at weyrich.UUCP> orville at weyrich.UUCP
(Orville R. Weyrich) writes:

> I would love to see MS try that -- MS-DOS itself started out as a clone of
> DR's popular [at the time] CP/M operating system. But of course, DR can't
> complain too loudly itself, as CP/M is very reminiscent of DEC's RSX
> (and perhaps other earlier DEC operating systems).

This claim is rather weak, to say the least.  Even a cursory
comparison of DOS V1 with CP/M would show that it's not a clone.  A
bit of investigation into the history would support this conclusion.
As for CP/M being reminiscent of RSX, the only similarity is in the
name of the program "PIP".  On the other hand, CP/M is *very* similar
to RT-11;  it's quite clear that Kildall had been using RT-11 shortly
before he wrote CP/M and borrowed a number of ideas from that system.
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	Geoff Kuenning   geoff at ITcorp.com   uunet!desint!geoff