Subj : Re: Jack Tramiel
To   : Lawrence Woodman
From : Tristan Miller
Date : Thu Jan 30 2020 01:25 pm

Greetings.

On 25/01/2020 14.34, Lawrence Woodman wrote:
> I'm not a big fan of Microsoft, but one thing that they did do is bring
> a common platform to million's of computers at a relatively low cost
> compared to CP/M.


I take it you're referring to the huge difference in price IBM was
charging for the two operating systems: according to Ars Technica [1],
this was $40 for PC-DOS (a licensed version of Microsoft's MS-DOS)
versus $240 for Digital's CP/M-86.  But the same article suggests that
the overpricing of CP/M-86 may have been IBM's decision rather than
Digital's.  At least, this is what Gary Kildall believed.  So Microsoft
may not have been responsible for making their OS available at a
"relatively" low cost.

Regards,
Tristan

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/07/ibm-pc-history-part-2/

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