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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,f25e853f410d55da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." Subject: Re: M2 history - relations to Ada Date: 1999/02/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 440800272 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> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Date: 1999-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach wrote in message <36BA2F44.6E678680@vlbg.at>... > > >Aron Felix Gurski wrote: >> >> David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote: >> > >> 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. >> -- > >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.