Folks - lets end this OT thread at this time. Its a little too far afield from
our regular list content and is overloading the in-boxes of a large number of
Elecraft readers.
36 posts in a 24 hour period on a Non-Elecraft topic is -way- over the limit.
Please self limit your postings to OT threads.
In the future, in the interest of keeping list traffic focused primarily on
Elecraft products and issues for the majproty of our readers, please -strongly-
resist the urge to reply to an OT topic once it has gone to 5 posts. Once it
hits ten posts do not reply at all (go off list if you feel the urge to
continue.) Also, please do not try to always get the 'last word'.
If we see a lot of OT threads hitting the ten posting hard limit we'll be forced
to reduce this to 5 posts as a -hard- limit.
In general, a few OT posts on not Elecraft ham radio topics are welcomed, but
longer non-Elecraft threads should be conducted elsewhere. The majority of the
subscribers prefer to see the vast majority of traffic on this reflector more
directly Elecraft product related. (Questions, reports on use, problems, product
announcements etc. )
73,
Eric
List moderator
elecraft.com
On 5/29/2014 5:13 AM, Kevin Stover wrote:
Neither Gates or Allen had bupkus to do with producing PC-DOS.
They bought it from Seattle Computer Products in 1981 and modified it to suit
IBM.
They were forced to purchase something off the shelf because they were way
behind producing their own.
The name PC-DOS came from IBM who licensed "MS-DOS".
Another little factoid. If Gary Kildall of Digital Research had been able to
come to an agreement with IBM when they came calling (before going to MS),
we'd have run CP/M on the first IBM PC's.
People who know say a lot of the internals of MS-DOS look an awful lot like
CP/M.
Hmmmm.
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