-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill Davidsen wrote: > I confess I don't recall hearing about msbsdos, even though I was > tracking much of that stuff at the time, since I was doing both hardware > and software evaluations. But there are a lot of odd stories which are > true, so anything is possible. i do not recall now just what he called his os, after all, it has been some time back and another reason i wish i had keep disk copy i was given. i guess saying bgbsdos would have been more appropriate term to use. i was a hardware head using z80 al and wrote a lot of controller and instrumentation programs for photo finishing labs. i wasted my time with one lab that keep promising to go digital, but also kept putting it off. what hurt most was their shutting down with out saying anything until last month of business. > For instance, I used to use S100 computers for industrial control, both > 8085, Z80, and 8088 (from Seattle Computers). i started reading up on micros with 4004 and rca 6k2 series. did not care for intel too much as their language seemed backwards. when zilog came out with their dual registries and port control, i went with it and cromemco, later moving on with motorola 6k8 and 68k series. i do miss them. > called QDOS (quick and dirty OS). Microsoft bought the rights to that > for cheap (as reported in various articles of the day) and called it > MSDOS... now that you mention qdos, i do remember it. i never used it as it would not run in a cromemco system. those who did have it did like it, until bg got his hands on it. zilog lost out on 'public user system' and went heavy into control and military, but due to public and collage support, along with ibm and tandy, intel and ms jumped far out in lead. tandy. reminds me of another one. model 2, 8" floppy disk. tandy got bg to write them a system and wanted a lot of 'bells and whistles' among which was to show progress of formating and such. being that 8" was 26 sectors, there was no way to show 26 in a pleasant way. simple enough, they cut back to 25 sectors for a 5 x 5 grid and put a copyright notice in 26. i do not recall his name, but a very clever programmer wrote up a bunch of enhancements for trsdos and advertised how much it could do with out using up disk space. he wrote a routine that when called, would use his own disk access calls to read and write to sector 26, leaving copyright in tact, and all of his subroutines were written there. - -- tc,hago. g . without fences, who needs gates. - --. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIFjYvQCGYa6nWX2MRAmCKAJ0X2EcFhAUdM9wwmBXt9O26WFoykgCg4/us hq+clVvivsUERZiAjjz/0jc= =z3Lf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
