From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Apr 5 09:34:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07746 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 09:34:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07534 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 09:34:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23735; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 10:22:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19980404102207.46613@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 10:22:07 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: KapuT , FreeBSD-Newbies Subject: Re: QDOS References: <35257736.5EBE7AC0@aei.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <35257736.5EBE7AC0@aei.ca>; from KapuT on Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 06:56:38PM -0500 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message