| stephengcarl on 2 Mar 2009 10:33:24 -0800 |
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Actually, you have your history wrong. MS bought the rights to something called QDOS (Quick & Dirty OS), which was a reverse engineer of Digital Research's C/PM. MS licensed their DOS to IBM, which was called PC-DOS. DR. DOS was Digital Research's (thus the DR) attempt to get back in the game with a DOS compatible OS after C/PM was buried by MS/PC DOS. IBM and MS later collaborated on a 2nd generation OS called OS/2, until MS screwed IBM, backed out of the development and released Windows. That was a shame, as OS/2 was a pretty good OS. Steve Mar 2, 2009 06:53:24 AM, plug@lists.phillylinux.org wrote: =========================================== On Monday 02 March 2009 05:49, Bob Schwier wrote: > Didn't the older non-MS DOS's like Dr. DOS use fat? > Seems like one could not suddenly decide that something is patented that > has been in the public domain for 25 years. Yes, I had forgotten about DR. DOS. That is the old IBM DOS system from which MS bought the rights. Maybe their lawyers can make this point? -- Regards Robert Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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