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Re: What else?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward H. Currie)
Fri Oct 30 13:03:28 1998
From: "Edward H. Currie" <ehcurrie@worldnet.att.net>
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Cc: <Richard.Forrister@jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:01:31 -0500
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Well actually it was Seattle Computer Products and if you look at the CPM/86
source code and
the first incarnation of MSDOS there's no question about what it was based
on ... and for the record
CPM and CPM/86 had remarkably simimlar architectures.
Also the purchase of MSDOS occurred much later in the course of things. It
as initially a non-exclusive
license.
Finally CPM/86 was around before "MS-DOS" was released.
Some folks find the singular nature of truth overly burdensome and prefer
the poetic license afforded by fiction ...
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Forrester <Richard.Forrister@jpl.nasa.gov>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard.Forrister@jpl.nasa.gov <Richard.Forrister@jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: What else?
>
>ehcurrie@worldnet.att.net said:
>> 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.
>
>And amazing how misconceptions about the myth mill just keep rolling
>along. As I recall (I was working for SofTech Microsystems - UCSD
>P-System OS for the early PC/LSI/other) Gary had been flying. The
>real bottom line, though, is that "MSDOS" was _bought_ from Seattle
>Computer Co, and was based on CP/M, not CP/M 86; that wasn't working
>at the time. The reason that the guys at SCC came up with their OS
>was because of the eternal delays in the appearance of CP/M 86.
>
>rickf
>
>> -----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.
>
>--
>Rick Forrister <Richard.Forrister@jpl.nasa.gov>
>
>You'll wonder why your data's lost
> When you load your system with MicroSoft...
>
>
>
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