Date   : Mon, 14 May 1984 20:19:00 EDT
From   : Charlie Strom (NYU) <strom@Brl-Bmd.ARPA>
Subject: Re: New CompuPro products

I thought that you might be interested in hearing some background on
Digital Research's development of the OEM (vanilla) version of CCPM,
as opposed to the IBM version. The OEM version was developed using
Compupro hardware, and the OEM version will run on a Compupro-816
system with Heath H-19/29 terminals. It is not surprising that Compupro
is able to release the operating system in short order considering this.
I have not seen the actual release code, but the work I did see lest a lot
to be desired. Apparently Gifford agreed, since their staff has been hard at 
work foir several months making it work the way it should. I suspect
we will see a ho-hum version from Compupro and an implementation done
the way it should be executed from Gifford. This also goes
for SoftNet.

Forgive me for my pessimism, but I have a SPU-Z on order for many moons.
I would also love an IBM-compatible graphics board, but I hope that
my social security check will cover it by the time it is released.. I
will be getting same in thirty years or so!