---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:45:18 -0500
>On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: >> How about an SWT 8080 with 16K (circa 1977) as I recall. >> Those were that days of CP/M, before Gates bought/stole it and named it dos. > >unfortunately, he bought qdos instead. cp/m was superior by almost all >accounts. >also known as ms-dos, on top of which runs this thing called windows. Slight correction: Win 3.x/Win9x runs on top of DOS. Neither NT nor Win2K is written on top of DOS. Even tho the command prompt LOOKS like 16-bit DOS, it's not. They're both 32-bit OSes, from the ground up, with backward 16-bit compatability. -- *-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-* Michael Leone <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP Key ID: 0x5AA5BCDF --
