Sat, 18 Nov 2006, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Saturday 18 November 2006 06:37, James Knott wrote: > > Well, I bought my first computer (an IMSAI 8080 in 1976 and when the > > PC first came out, many considered a step backwards from what 8 bit CP/M > > systems were capable of. For example, back then, there was even an > > multiuser version called MP/M. > CP/M 80 .... remember it well... isn't it amazing how much the first > M$DOS > looked and behaved like CP/M...? (thief) >
The QDOS author only knew CP/M when he wrote his little app-starter, and he didn't know it very either, or he would've abandoned the drive A: .. Z: notion right from the start, and used the much easier (Unix) mount notion. > And then there was BASIC... basically stolen also... Billy Gates > inventing > BASIC is almost as laughable as ALGORE inventing the internet... now that I > think of it... BASIC is the *only* program Billy ever "wrote".... hmmm. Not even that. The bulk of the code was written by Paul Allen. BG merely (re)wrote history.. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
