From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f8c65,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,f25e853f410d55da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach Subject: Re: M2 history - relations to Ada Date: 1999/02/05 Message-ID: <36BA2F44.6E678680@vlbg.at>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 440785319 Cache-Post-Path: news.vbs.at!unknown@rasm10.dorn.austronet.at Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <78abg4$cnc$1@its.hooked.net> <78i8s4$hth$1@its.hooked.net> <78iq2m$br9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <794gg7$ib$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7963q0$ail$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7973lb$mdl$1@remarQ.com> <797hjv$ivm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7992oe$ram$1@remarQ.com> <79bp1n$fd5$1@remarQ.com> <36B9F2B8.C03C5C70@online.no> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@vbs.at X-Trace: newsmaster-01.vbs.at 918171882 25608 194.152.167.196 (4 Feb 1999 23:44:42 GMT) Organization: VBS-Newsserver (news.vbs.at) Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Feb 1999 23:44:42 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3 Date: 1999-02-04T23:44:42+00:00 List-Id: Aron Felix Gurski wrote: > > David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote: > > > 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. > -- As far as i know, it�s name was DOS86 as a implementation of CP/M for 8086. And it took incredible 3 month to change the OS to support the hardware. An former MS-programmer said that it only took 1 month to make a working product. But then came meta-programmer bill and reprogrammed all parts. the result was DOS 1.0. ;-) btw the first useable version (i say) was 3.2 bye Robert -- Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach BeDeveloper: E-16249 mailto:rlf@vlbg.at or mailto:rlf@rlf.freeservers.com http://rlf.freeservers.com