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
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>> 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.