Mail Archives: opendos/2000/07/18/00:41:54
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:42:50 -0400 "Bob Jonkman" <bjonkman AT sobac DOT com>
writes:
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> This is what Bruce Morgan < said about
> "Re: Hi !" on Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:52:50
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> > 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".
>
Bullseye, Bob -- that's what
it was called in the
hobbyist community before
M$ bought out Seattle and
signed up IBM!
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