Last I knew DRDOS was owned by Novell.
Stewart
At 03:07 PM 2/27/2009, you wrote:
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
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
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