Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:27:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, KapuT <malartre@aei.ca>, FreeBSD-Newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: QDOS Message-ID: <19980406102747.14562@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980404102207.46613@nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 10:22:07AM %2B0100 References: <35257736.5EBE7AC0@aei.ca> <19980404102207.46613@nothing-going-on.org>
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On Sat, 4 April 1998 at 10:22:07 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 06:56:38PM -0500, KapuT wrote: >> Hi, dont know if all people know what I have readed one hour ago, but I >> will say to you what I have discovered hihihi :-) >> >> I have readed at the bookstore in the Complete FreeBSD from Greg Lehey >> than DOS was derivated from QDOS > > Yep. > > There's very recently been a long discussion about this in the > alt.folklore.computers newsgroup. If you're interested in learning a > lot more about the history behind it all, going to > > <URL:http://www.dejanews.com/>; > > and searching for > >> g alt.folklore.computers ~s "DOS is stolen" > > (which will, I think, search only in that group for messages with that > subject line) you'll get all the info you could possibly want. g alt.folklore.computers ~s DOS is stolen works better. I've tried fighting my way through this thread, but after 10 messages about BASIC and PDP-10s, I gave up. Microsoft bought the rights to QDOS (which by this time had been renamed 86-DOS for marketing reasons :-) sometime in late 1980 or early 1981. During that time I spoke about the product to George Gardener, the president of SCP, and expressed the opinion that Digital Research, who had just introduced CP/M-86, would blow them out of the water. He said that he was confident that 86-DOS would survive, and that they had just signed a contract with a very big computer company ("I can't tell you *how* big, or you'll know who they are") who were going to use it in a new computer they were bringing out. Note that his focus was on IBM, not on Microsoft, who weren't a serious *anything* in those days. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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