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: 103376,f25e853f410d55da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public From: Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach Subject: Re: M2 history - relations to Ada Date: 1999/02/05 Message-ID: <36BA343F.658B79A3@vlbg.at>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 440792968 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> <36BA2F44.6E678680@vlbg.at> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@vbs.at X-Trace: newsmaster-01.vbs.at 918173161 25917 194.152.167.196 (5 Feb 1999 00:06:01 GMT) Organization: VBS-Newsserver (news.vbs.at) Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Feb 1999 00:06:01 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3 Date: 1999-02-05T00:06:01+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach BeDeveloper: E-16249 mailto:rlf@vlbg.at or mailto:rlf@rlf.freeservers.com http://rlf.freeservers.com