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Paolo Amoroso<p>This 1982 interview with Gary Kildall is interesting because it focuses on CP/M-86 which is little known.</p><p>It made me notice a difference with MS-DOS I hadn't thought of before. Like Unix and unlike MS-DOS, CP/M-86 shipped with a complete software development environment with tools such as an assembler, which might have contributed to the higher price.</p><p><a href="https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/gary-kildall-has-a-talk-with-pc-magazine" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">computeradsfromthepast.substac</span><span class="invisible">k.com/p/gary-kildall-has-a-talk-with-pc-magazine</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cpm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cpm</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cpm86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cpm86</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Willard Goosey<p><a href="https://julianehehl.de/test-ndr/ndrliteratur.htm#top" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">julianehehl.de/test-ndr/ndrlit</span><span class="invisible">eratur.htm#top</span></a><br>Joy another time-sink, another CP/M BASIC!</p><p>And it's supposedly based off of TDL BASIC, one of the better non-ms BASICs.</p><p>The docs seem to be in German only so I might be able to resist (I can't read German 😢)</p><p>Special for <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@amoroso" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>amoroso</span></a></span> there's also a cpm86 version... </p><p>I once spent way too long getting an early version of TDL BASIC working under CPM and then never did anything with it.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Basic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/HeBas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HeBas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CPM86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM86</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TDL</span></a></p>