From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 6 11:40:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F3137B401 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 11:40:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1295"@[136.142.89.102]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K6TFJ0EY7A005WHJ@mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu> for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:40:27 EST Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 14:44:25 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3B6EE589.D1BF1319@pitt.edu> Organization: University of Pittsburgh MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------4DC0F079F7B4976B2A4EC82D" X-Accept-Language: en,pdf,es-CO References: <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010806150653.C96762@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <20010806151305.B64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------4DC0F079F7B4976B2A4EC82D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit j mckitrick wrote: > ... > But couldn't you also get PC-DOS, Compaq-DOS, DR-DOS, etc? I remember ... FWIW, Compaq DOS was the actually MS DOS plus utilities. I'm not sure if IBM's PC DOS was actually based on firsts MS DOS too. DR DOS is a completely different story with Caldera ending up compensated economically. Pedro. --------------4DC0F079F7B4976B2A4EC82D Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="pfg1.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Pedro F. Giffuni Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pfg1.vcf" begin:vcard n:Giffuni;Pedro tel;fax:1 (360) 343-0501 tel;home:(412) 665 2956 tel;work:(412) 624-9862 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.geocities.com/giffunip/ org:University of Pittsburgh;Industrial Engineering adr:;;5820 Elwood St. Apt. 34;Pittsburgh;PA;15232;USA version:2.1 email;internet:giffunip@asme.org title:Teaching Assistant fn:Pedro F. Giffuni end:vcard --------------4DC0F079F7B4976B2A4EC82D-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message