Re: DOS & MINIX

You should yell at Jeff :) He's the one who asserts DOS came from Minix, not I.

Jeremy

Pete Pardoe wrote:

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
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/*Date:*/ Thursday, May 13, 2004 6:36:49 PM
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/*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. :-)
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