Herb's Website made front page on HackerNews
It's a bit hyperbolic, to say my site "made the front page" of HackerNews. So, the precipitating event, possibly was https://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/d_dri.html#gaby an update in mid-June 2022 to the license that DRDOS Inc CEO Brian Sparks gave to the CP/M archive site some years ago. Sparks essentially owns CP/M. Read the fine Web pages for details. Otherwise, someone on HackerNews noted one of my many Digital Research Web pages http://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/ - home page for DRI https://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/d_dri.html - early DRI CP/M work http://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/dri_16bit.html - later probably found while Web searching for CP/M ownership information. My pages get attention, because "content is king on the Web" still holds. Here's what I mean. Few Web sites have followed the trail of sales of Digital Research assets, ending with Brian Sparks and DRDOS Inc. associates' final purchase. Few cover all the products of DRI, and their relationship to other software products, particularly 16-bit class products. Scope of content matters. I did all that, before Kildall's story became well-known in 2004, in a biographical write up contained in "They Made America". And, before the IEEE honored Kildall's first business location on the 40th anniversary of Kildall's first boot of CP/M (a date not well-established, by the way). Persistence of content matters. The scope of DRI and CP/M is a rich story. But most accounts of CP/M focus on Dr. Gary Kildall's life when CP/M began with him, and end with MS-DOS and the IBM PC in 1981. Nothing could be further from the truth. Kildall made other contributions after Digital Research, and had other issues. These I do not cover. I followed the CP/M trail from where it started, to many products and people impacted by it, and to wherever that led. Regards Herb Johnson retrotechnology.com -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT comcast DOT net
On 12/19/22 11:58, Herbert Johnson via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
It's a bit hyperbolic, to say my site "made the front page" of HackerNews. So, the precipitating event, possibly was
https://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/d_dri.html#gaby
an update in mid-June 2022 to the license that DRDOS Inc CEO Brian Sparks gave to the CP/M archive site some years ago. Sparks essentially owns CP/M. Read the fine Web pages for details.
Otherwise, someone on HackerNews noted one of my many Digital Research Web pages
I enjoyed reading that! :-) -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ
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