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   Message 964 of 1,530   
   Dan Cross to Stan Hosdar   
   Re: what's classic now?   
   02 Jul 21 03:08:15   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46   
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   On 30 Jun 2021 at 08:57p, Stan Hosdar pondered and said...   
       
    SH> what OS did a pdp-11 run? in particular what OS did cpm (and dos, etc)   
    SH> emulate with it's .com, .exe and other similar command lines?   
      
   Kildall was, I believe, mostly influenced by RSTS/E on the   
   PDP-11.  My guess is that he heard about PIP (Peripheral   
   Interchange Program) there.   
      
   Gates and Allen were familiar with TOPS-10 from using the   
   PDP-10 at Harvard (and I seem to recall Gates's private   
   school in Seattle had access to some powerful -- for the   
   time -- mainframe-class machine, but I may be misremembering).   
      
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