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Quoth · 07-19-2022, 12:34 PM

There was no court case about that specific issue. Either Gary Kiddal lost interest, or something else. IBM did try to buy CP/M 86 but he didn't engage.

MS certainly earlier ported Dartmouth Basic and sold it as MS Basic and DID buy in an 8086 DOS that was basis of MSDOS/PCDOS. It's almost identical to CP/M 86 & CP/M 80 on the "API", called software Interrupts. Obviously the commands & syntax is different, but that's trivial change.

I was using CP/M on Z80 before PC existed and the ACT Sirius 1 (Victor 9000) was sold in UK with CP/M 86 before MS-DOS was on it. PC-DOS (the IBM version of MS-DOS) was only on the IBM PC.

It's absolutely not Urban myth.

However Apple's later court case against Windows was crazy because MS, Apple, Digital Research etc all copied Xerox. I think MS had to rename the Trash to Recycle Bin and change appearance, but that might be mythical.

US Tech court cases are famously about who has deeper pockets and lobbyists with Gov. Apple shouldn't have won any case against Samsung, ever.

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Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,496 Karma: 107078855 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	There was no court case about that specific issue. Either Gary Kiddal lost interest, or something else. IBM did try to buy CP/M 86 but he didn't engage. MS certainly earlier ported Dartmouth Basic and sold it as MS Basic and DID buy in an 8086 DOS that was basis of MSDOS/PCDOS. It's almost identical to CP/M 86 & CP/M 80 on the "API", called software Interrupts. Obviously the commands & syntax is different, but that's trivial change. I was using CP/M on Z80 before PC existed and the ACT Sirius 1 (Victor 9000) was sold in UK with CP/M 86 before MS-DOS was on it. PC-DOS (the IBM version of MS-DOS) was only on the IBM PC. It's absolutely not Urban myth. However Apple's later court case against Windows was crazy because MS, Apple, Digital Research etc all copied Xerox. I think MS had to rename the Trash to Recycle Bin and change appearance, but that might be mythical. US Tech court cases are famously about who has deeper pockets and lobbyists with Gov. Apple shouldn't have won any case against Samsung, ever. Last edited by Quoth; 07-19-2022 at 12:39 PM.