[vcf-midatlantic] Herb's Website made front page on HackerNews
Herbert Johnson
hjohnson at retrotechnology.info
Mon Dec 19 16:58:27 UTC 2022
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
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Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA
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