Content-return: allowed Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 10:22:59 -0800 From: "Cox, Stuart FOR:EX" Subject: RE: A little history To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id NAA25257 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com CP/M V3.0 for the Z-80 allowed redirection. It wasn't quite transparent, but it did it. Stuart Cox Map Generalization Technician, not Resources Inventory Branch ······················································ Phone: (250)387-5529 FAX: (250)356-9430 email Stuart DOT Cox AT gems1 DOT gov DOT bc DOT ca Check out the RIB Website at: http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/resinv/homepage.htm -----Original Message----- From: Chris Simmonds [mailto:chris AT 2net DOT co DOT uk] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:58 AM To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: A little history Hi Patrick, Thanks for the detail. Great. I think that Kildall was dead before DRI was bought by Novell. I don't think he could ever have been a second Bill Gates though - he just wasn't like that. He had a life - though short. I don't think Gates has ever had a life. Patrick Moran wrote: > It most likely was in the developement of DOS v2 that the UNIX connection > was implemented. I do somewhat like to distort it a little and say > UNIX->CP/M->DOS=>Linux, just to show we are making a complete circle and > back to where it all started from. It is only slightly exaggerated, but not > too far from the truth. It is more like a U-turn than a circle, but it just > looks better as a circle. > I take issue here. There is no connection between CP/M and Unix. MS-DOS post v2.0 has a sort of Unixy file system and sort of does redirection and piping which were obviously inspired by Unix (Xenix?), but its very superficial. I'm sure there never was any common code between MS-DOS and Xenix. For one thing, one is written in assembler, the other in 'C'. So your circle is more of a line: CP/M -> DOS -> Windows I see Unix as a totaly separate line. Chris.