To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:28:00 5
Subject: Re: Hi !
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From: Bruce Morgen <editor AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com



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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