Re: DOS & MINIX

[Jeremy Brown <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
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> Pete
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> Jeremy Brown wrote:
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> 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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