RE: tlug: FW: Windows 95

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 27 May 1998, Jonathan Byrne--3Web wrote:

> >> Microsoft didn't write MS-DOS, they bought it, so I don't think so.  I'll
> >
> >Are you referring to CP/M?   I thought that they did esentially
> re-write/port
> >it for the IMB PC.
> 
> 
> No, I'm not.  Microsoft bought DOS from another company and did little or
> nothing other than rename it to Microsoft DOS before getting it adopted by
> IBM as the PC operating system.  If DOS is a CP/M port, this is A) News to
> me, and B) Something that wasn't done by MS.

AFAIK, DOS is a watered-down adaptation of one of the UNIX operating
systems of the time.  At least, DOS 2.0 is.  I've heard that DOS 1.0 is
completely different.. DOS 2.0 is basically the same (as far as the
interface goes) as the current "DOS 7.0 (aka Win95/NT)" UI.  So, it seems
like a 'commandline UNIX for beginners' gone amok.

Then again, let's see you run *any* kind of UNIX, even ones available in
1980, on a 4.77MHz 8-bit processor with 640K of ram (maximum) and no hard
drive ;)

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