On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 19:48, tom ehlert <[email protected]> wrote: > > that is simply not true. to start this sentence with 'Remember' > as in 'as everyone knows' is bullshit conspiracy tactics.
I stand by it. As the late great Dr Gary Kildall said: "Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that." — Gary Kildall Quoted in James Wallace and Jim Erickson (1991-05-08), "Bill Gates: Of Mind and Money", Seattle Post-Intelligencer Source: https://quotepark.com/authors/gary-kildall/ The _design_ of SCP QDOS, and therefore IBM PC DOS, and therefore MS-DOS, was directly lifted from DR CP/M. That is why it was so compatible and why it was easy to port CP/M code to DOS on 8086. That is why it was DR was able to offer DR-DOS. That is why DR competed with MS by offering multitasking OSes (Concurrent CP/M, Concurrent DOS, FlexOS, Multiuser DOS) which could multitask DOS apps. I am not saying Paterson stole the code. I am saying he lifted the design. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: [email protected] Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
