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Re: What else?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward H. Currie)
Fri Oct 30 12:04:45 1998
From: "Edward H. Currie" <ehcurrie@worldnet.att.net>
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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:00:05 -0500
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Course Gary didn't have a yacht at the time ...and since MSDOS was based on
CPM86 seems
a fundamentally silly premise ...
Amazing how the myth mill just keeps rolling along.
-----Original Message-----
From: KThorpe <kthorpe@pricetrak.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 10:12 AM
Subject: RE: What else?
>>> I know this is off topic but what other OS's are there for the intel PC?
>>> Apart from Win95/98/NT and Unix varients.. what else is there?
>
>>OS/2. Shoot... I know there are others.
>
><asbestos suit on>
>
>Personally I think CP/M 86 was a pinnacle of achievement, and if Gary
>Kildall hadn't been out sailing his yacht when Big Blue came a-knocking we
>would have had the foundations of a real operating system from scratch
>instead of having to put up with a series of evermore elaborate kludges
upon
>QDOS (quick and dirty operating system [obviously the quick part got
dropped
>a long time ago]). Does anyone know a good genetic engineer or time-machine
>salesman?
>
></asbestos suit on>
>
>ps. IMNSHO Punctuation is deprecated.
>
>
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