On Friday 17 May 2002 06:37 am, you wrote:
> On Friday 17 May 2002 06:24 am, Brian Koppe wrote:
> > > Ever hear of MS-
> > >DOS? That wasn't Gates' brainchild, it was IBM's. Only because they
> > >forgot to secure their rights to it.
> >
> > Know of any sources to support this?
>
> "The history of MS-DOS is surprisingly long. It started off as QDOS (Quick
> and Dirty Operating System) which was developed by Seattle Computer
> Products to run on IBM's new PC."
>
> http://www.houlden.f9.co.uk/msdos/dosversions.htm
But for a quirk of fate, the original PC operating system could have been GEM
(DOS), and the world would have been so much better off for it..... ;-)
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