It recall that Microsoft licensed QDOS in 1981 from a Seattle company to
pitch Microsoft to IBM as the best provider of the PC operating system.
Gates renamed it MS-DOS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS
QDOS (aka 86-DOS) copied CP/M's naming convention for portability of
applications, therefore MS-DOS copied CP/M's naming convention. Digital
Research was created in the 70's to market CP/M, and should hold the first
patent for that convention... if they had the foresight to patient such a
benign aspect of their creation!
- Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Piwowar" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] MS Sues TomTom for Using Linux
>Well it says MS has the patents on them...so then the answer would be
>yes.
I guess you never used CPM either.
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