From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Apr 5 17:58:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08993 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:58:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08916 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:58:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA10736; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:27:48 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA02435; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:27:47 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980406102747.14562@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:27:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Nik Clayton , KapuT , FreeBSD-Newbies Subject: Re: QDOS References: <35257736.5EBE7AC0@aei.ca> <19980404102207.46613@nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <19980404102207.46613@nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 10:22:07AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > > > 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