On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 07:24, Pete Pardoe wrote: > DOS was originally QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and was > written as a clone of CP/M for the 8088/86 processors. There actually > was a CP/M86 but Gary Kildall (Digital Research) missed the call from > IBM so they went to Microsoft who originally licensed and then bought > QDOS and released it as PCDOS and MSDOS. All Microsoft had at that > point was an early version of Microsoft Basic. > > Pete > > Please disable the HTML. -- Chris Kloiber
