To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:06:27 5
Subject: Re: Hi !
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From: Bruce Morgen <editor AT juno DOT com>
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:59:41 +0200 "Ole M. Olsen" <olemo AT home DOT se> writes:
> Bruce Morgen wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:32:25 -0700 Robert W Moss 
> <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
> > writes:
> > 
> > > Gary Kildall
> > > formed Digital Research and was involved in many other
> > > computer projects which included Mainframe and
> > > Minicomputers, software, and hardware, and the first
> > > (D)isk (O)perating (S)ystem, before there was any
> > > MS or PC DOS.  It is still considered to be the best DOS
> > > by many users.
> > 
> > No offense, but what the
> > heck are you referring to?
> 
> DR-DOS, I presume? That's what we're here for, isn't it? :-)
> 
I assure you DR-DOS was not 
extant "before there was any
MS or PC DOS."  Even CP/M 
86, Kildall's alternative 
for the original IBM-PC, was 
released *after* M$'s PC-DOS 
-- "what we're here for" is 
another issue entirely, at 
the moment we're trying to 
get some historical facts 
straight.
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