CP/M provides the personal computer industry with its most enduring piece of folklore. When IBM began hunting around for an OS for its planned PC, it sent representatives to Gary Kildall's California office. Kildall was out flying his plane at the time and apparently thought communing with the big blue sky was more important than Big Blue. (Kildall later revealed that other talks with IBM had been inconclusive.) This was possibly the worst display of business acumen since New Hampshire's McDonald brothers sold most of their little hamburger-joint concept to a guy named Ray.
IBM quickly worked out a deal with a young fellow named Bill Gates. Ironically, 86-DOS, the OS that Microsoft bought and turned into MS-DOS
1.0, employed such CP/M commands as REN, Dir, and Type, which are still in use today.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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