From:	"Bob Jonkman" <bjonkman AT sobac DOT com>
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Date:	Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:42:50 -0400
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This is what Bruce Morgan < said about 
"Re: Hi !" on Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:52:50

> Yes, if you consider QDDOS 
> and PC-DOS 1.0 to be the 
> same animal.

Then 

> Remember, M$ bought QDDOS from Seattle
> Microcomputer and did some adaptation to the specifics
> of the IBM-PC hardware, so PC-DOS was much less of a
> porting job than CP/M 86.

Upon which Ben A L Jemmett replied:

> Well, yes, but QDOS was pretty much a disassembly/reassembly of
> CP/M-80, wasn't it?  So the porting would be similar, although most of
> it was already done I guess.

"QDDDOS" isn't the same thing as "QDOS", is it?  "QDOS" (reminds one 
of "Quick DOS") was a point'n'shoot file management utility from 
Gazelle Software...  "QDDOS" sounds like it might have been "Quick & 
Dirty DOS".



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