Based on my sales of CPM and MPM in the 70's and 80's I would say not as I remember selling well in excess of 10,000 CPM/MPM licenses to PC manufacturers through out Europe alone.
All this when running MPI [ MicroComputer Products International ] the European distributor for DR and many other vendors including Microsoft.
I still have the exact licensing records some where on my system during the periods 1976 -- 1986 as these where used to work out what payments went to each software? vendor and the software was issued in over 200 different floppy formats - no such thing as a standard despite use trying to. The Japanese liked to do things their own way !
WE had to design and construct a very hybride computer system that had four different sets of twin floppy drives to cater for them all running under a heavily changed CPM and MSDos codebase and yes we had the source for each of these.
At any one point we had in the test or production areas over 40 different micro computer based systems from a wide range of companies including IBM, DEC, Burrughs, ICL Torch to name but a few.
Vince
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On 28/06/2020 09:37, Dave Wade wrote:
Mark,
I wonder if there were more DEC systems with PIP than CPM systems. That is computers delivered.
Dave
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Joe,
Where do you think CP/M got "PIP" from??? DEC ... OS/8, TOPS-10, RSTS/11, etc., etc.
Cheers,
