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From: Aron Felix Gurski <spam-block.aron.felix.gurski@online.no>
Subject: Re: M2 history - relations to Ada
Date: 1999/02/04
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David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote:
> 
> news.oxy.com wrote in message <79bp1n$fd5$1@remarQ.com>...
> <large snip>
> >How about that, then!  First "Windows" was created before Bill Gates wrote
> >his "DOS" for IBM PC.
> Just one small point of clarification about this "history:"
> Gates didn't write DOS. Microsoft, which had been writing language
> translators -- e.g., BASIC and FORTRAN -- _bought_ DOS from Seattle Computer
> Products.

And what's more, it was originally called QDOS: Quick and Dirty Operating
System. Of course, that name is not something that IBM would market, so the
name got changed when IBM came into the picture.
-- 
        -- Aron

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