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From: Lao Xiao Hai <laoxhai@ix.netcom.com>
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Marin David Condic wrote:

> The architecture was pretty neat and was possibly responsible for the "look
> and feel" of a lot of other systems. The MS-DOS window always reminded me of
> the look and feel of TOPS-10. You think someone involved with that used to
> work with a DEC 10?

I have read that Bill Gates once wrote programs for the DEC-10.  More important,

many of the ideas Gary Kildall introduced into CP/M originated in the DEC-10.
Of
course, those ideas were adopted by Tim Patterson when he invented what would
be appropriated by Bill Gates as MS-DOS.   The heritage of the DEC-10 does live
on in the many operating systems that have evolved through Kildall's work.

Richard Riehle