If anything DOS has it's roots in CP/M. Ahhh, those were the days! Back in the days of using PIP, which probably had it's roots in RSX or RSTS. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Pete Pardoe To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 4:01 PM Subject: Re: DOS & MINIX Jeremy DOS was created in 1981 MINIX in 1987 so it is hardly possible for DOS to have been created by taking parts of MINIX. Do a search of the history of each on Google. Pete -------Original Message------- From: For users of Fedora Core releases Date: Thursday, May 13, 2004 6:36:49 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Why Would Fedora be Free ? Can it be Trusted? Jeremy Brown wrote: DOS was created by taking Minix and pulling out the parts that made a single pc able to boot and run. Early versions of DOS even had the Minix strings in the code. I saw that in the DOS 1 code using a hex editor. :-) fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ____________________________________________________ IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
