To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 04:17:19 5
Subject: Re: Hi !
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From: Bruce Morgen <editor AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com



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
> 
> > 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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