From: Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach <rlf@vlbg.at>
Subject: Re: M2 history - relations to Ada
Date: 1999/02/05
Date: 1999-02-05T00:06:01+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36BA343F.658B79A3@vlbg.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36BA2F44.6E678680@vlbg.at
Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach wrote:
>
> 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. ;-)
And all not working parts were called features.
Btw, Bill says in his autobiography, that he had to make major changes
(freely translated
back from the german version), and he is telling truth, really
As far as i know is the name QDOS a (later) joke.
In the late 80s the were some projects like
QDFG (quick and dirty frame grabber).
Maybe the name was "created" at that time.
bye Robert
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1999-01-22 0:00 Time to join the fold? Mike Silva
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-04 0:00 ` M2 history - relations to Ada news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-04 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` G.S. Vigneault
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Grant Edwards
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach [this message]
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chuck Clark
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Borchert
1999-02-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) nabbasi
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Modula 2 William Clodius
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) Al Christians
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Time to join the fold? Pat Rogers
1999-01-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-01-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Pascal MALAISE
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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