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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:45:26 5
Subject: Re: Hi !
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From: Bruce Morgen <editor AT juno DOT com>
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:56:31 +0200 (MET DST) Bernie
<bernie AT hem DOT passagen DOT se> writes:
> Bruce wrote:
> >> "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!
> 
> I thought the name was "Quick and Dirty Operating System" - or QDOS 
> if you
> want. And that it was M$ that changed the "Dirty" into "Disk".

I like that even better -- and 
I thought having an entire 
thread form over a single 
letter only happened on 
Usenet!  :-)

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