Hallo Herr tom ehlert,

am Samstag, 17. April 2021 um 11:20 schrieben Sie:

> BTW: your original statement was

>   'Remember that in effect MS-DOS was an unlicensed copy of Digital
>    Research's CP/M and particularly CP/M-86.'

> by TK Chia's remark, CP/M-86 didn't even exist yet when he wrote QDOS.
> and QDOS couldn't compete with CP/M as CP/M doesn't run on 8088.

>> I still maintain there is a bit of a difference between copying a
>> rival's API in order to launch a competing product, and copying a
>> rival's API in order to do something completely different with it.

> so you claim that DRDOS  3.31 was an unlicensed copy of MSDOS 3.x ?

> few people would agree with you on that.

and by extension FreeDOS is an unlicensed copy of MSDOS 6.x ?

nope.

Tom



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