| Michael Leone on Wed, 13 Feb 2002 04:20:20 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 17:27, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > At 08:42 PM 2/11/2002 -0500, Fred wrote: > > >Even so .... it could have been some company other than MS (IBM > >originally wanted DR-DOS). Whichever company IBM tapped had a better > >than good shot to be THE company, due to IBM's (at the time) huge > >influence in PCs as well as the openness of the original ISA bus. It > >coulda been DR-DOS. > > > >But it wasn't. > > Let's not forget IBM's own PC-DOS And Compaq's Compaq DOS. Altho I believe they were just rebranded MS-DOS, with a couple extra unique utilities. PC-DOS really split off in code bases with PC-DOS v7, wasn't it? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 <mailto:turgon@mike-leone.com> ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg> "Sometimes your lack of sympathy gets hard to explain, So on your mask of make-up you just paint a little parody of pain" "When you were young", Del Amitri Attachment:
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