To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:56:21 -0700
Subject:	Re: Hi !
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From:	Robert W Moss <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
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QDOS is mentioned at various places on the WEB when you look for 
information about the origins of DOS.  Patterson wrote QDOS for his 
computers because he thought DRInc was to slow in getting a 16-bit 
OS to market and it was hurting sales of his own computers.  He 
wrote it very quickly and purposely made it work like CP/M which was 
the dominant OS at the time.  It was not a really good system and was 
far from a complete clone  of CP/M. After he sold it to MS he found 
out about the IBM deal and sued them for irregularities in the sale.  
He sued for $67 Million and settled for $975 thousand.  Sound familiar? 
I believe he actually worked for MS for a time before he sued them. 

The following sites have info on Gary Kildall and DRInc. and links to 
other sites.  

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/97/0707/6001336a.htm

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugradscholars/kildall.htm

http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/kildall.html

http://www2.gol.com/users/joewein/gary.html 
(wein was an original programmer for DR DOS/UK & Germany)

http://www2.gol.com/users/joewein/edc.html

http://www2.gol.com/users/joewein/drj.html

http://www2.gol.com/users/joewein/dri25.htm

http://www2.dri-reunion.com    (iffy?)
     or (www)

http://www.ddj.com/articles/1997/9718/9718i/9718i.htm

I honestly thought that Gary Kildall had been involved with 
manufacturing hardware, probably because I run into so 
much Digital Research Inc hardware on the shelves at 
Comp USA and Best Buy stores here in California.  They 
may not even have any connection with the old DRInc. 

His first program was an operating system called PL/M 
which he wrote for Intel for the 8008 processor.  He used 
it to develop CP/M.  Intel bought PL/M but did not buy CP/M 
because they were not interested in a (D)isk (O)perating 
(S)ystem.

One of his other endeavors was a company called Knowlege-Set 
which developed the programs needed to store info on CD ROMs.
They published Groliers Encyclopedia on CD ROM.

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:28:00 5 Bruce Morgen <editor AT juno DOT com> writes:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:27:02 +0100 "Ben A L Jemmett"
> <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk> writes:
> > > > 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
> > Well, my old disk was labelled QDOS, so it wasn't Quick and Dirty 
> > Disk
> > Operating System.  IIRC, T[io]m Patterson at SCP confirmed that it 
> 
> > was
> > indeed 'Quick and Dirty OS'.
> > 
> Thanks for clearing that up 
> -- being stubborn by nature, 
> I didn't use any 16-bit DOS 
> until QDOS was already a 
> legend and MS-DOS 3.3 was 
> the de facto industry 
> standard.  Anybody want to 
> buy a Micromint SB-180 SBC?
> 		:-)
> 
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