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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada -- a popular language?
Date: 1997/04/17
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Dave Smith said

<<I should have made a reference to MSDOS instead of basic>>

Then you would have been completely wrong. MSDOS (or PCDOS as it came to
be known -- the IBM version of MSDOS) were NOT bundled with the PC. You
had to buy them separately. The first version of DOS cost $40 (I remember
well having to buy it separately!)