From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: M2 history - relations to Ada
Date: 1999/02/04
Date: 1999-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZiwWaxJU#GA.250@pet.hiwaay.net> (raw)
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Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach wrote in message <36BA2F44.6E678680@vlbg.at>...
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>Aron Felix Gurski wrote:
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>> David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote:
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>> 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.
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>As far as i know, it�s name was DOS86 as a implementation of CP/M for
>8086.
Here's the sequence and the real names:
Digital Research was too slow in getting CP/M-86 completed to meet the needs
of some hardware manufacturers. As a consequence, Tim Paterson of Seattle
computer Products put together the product originally named QDOS (Quick and
Dirty Operating System), later named 86-DOS, which was the name it had when
Microsoft bought it.
I know this story very well, for I was involved with implementation of
C/PM-86 for a pre-IBM-PC 8086 (not 8088) computer, in 1979, or so. I was
one of those who thought Microsoft should stick to doing language
translators, and leave the OS to Digital Research, so I had my train hitched
to the wrong engine, as it turned out.
David C. Hoos, Sr.
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
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 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-02 0:00 ` 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 ` 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 ` Chuck Clark
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Borchert
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-04 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-04 0:00 ` G.S. Vigneault
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. [this message]
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
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 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Time to join the fold? 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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