Re[2]: [newbie] AGH!! Linux not ready for prime time (OS/2 user)

[Roman Korcek]

Hey Greg and Jeff,

>> Although gates must have stolen the concept and "basic inteface" from
>> another OS, IBM contracted Gates to write "DOS" in a deal that took place
>> after the huge company was made to wait an hour (yes, only an hour) by the
>> company in California that wrote CP/M.

> You are correct.  That is what I remember too.  I was just simnplifying the
> story.  As I remember it, Gates then turned around and bought something
> which he lightly modified and sold to IBM as DOS.

Yep, and it was originally called QDOS, which is an abbreviation for
Quick-and-Dirty-OS, cos it was programmed only in a few weeks in ASM
without any optimizations, just making it work roughly. If I remember
right, it had about 9*10^3 lines (the source of course).

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Roman