Re: SD: RE: New operating system...

Re: SD: RE: New operating system...

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• Subject: Re: SD: RE: New operating system...
• From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
• Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:52:02 -0900
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• In-Reply-To: <19990219.233601.-4049149.2.jdaomteys@juno.com>
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>>Microsoft bought DOS from a seattle computer company.  It was called
>>QDOS
>>(Quick and Dirty Operating System), microsoft renamed it, trashed it,
>>and
>>called it their own.
>
>The point is that DOS was based off of CP/M. I just didn't realize that
>some other company had it before microsoft.

QDOS was created because CP/M was too expensive.  If CP/M were cheeper from
the start, the PSea world would be different...

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