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And CP/M copied from DEC's operating systems, most especially RT/11.

I haven't examined the code myself, but the source code to the original PC-DOS is available and can be compared with CP/M. I've been told they were not copies.



Tim Paterson, of Seattle Computer Products and later Microsoft, gave a good talk at VCF West 2019 where he describes the history of 86-DOS (licensed to become PC-DOS and MS-DOS). There was an intention for significant API compatibility with CP/M, but no code was taken from CP/M.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Qh0O3Dt10




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