Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: > Sat, 18 Nov 2006, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >> On Saturday 18 November 2006 06:37, James Knott wrote: >> >>> Well, I bought my first computer (an IMSAI 8080 in 1976 and when the >>> PC first came out, many considered a step backwards from what 8 bit CP/M >>> systems were capable of. For example, back then, there was even an >>> multiuser version called MP/M. >>> >> CP/M 80 .... remember it well... isn't it amazing how much the first >> M$DOS >> looked and behaved like CP/M...? (thief) >> >> > > The QDOS author only knew CP/M when he wrote his little app-starter, > and he didn't know it very either, or he would've abandoned the > drive A: .. Z: notion right from the start, and used the much easier > (Unix) mount notion. >
QDOS was originally intended as a development system for hardware, while Seattle Computer Projects waited for CP/M-86 to be released. It wasn't supposed to replace CP/M, until BG got hold of it. Incidentally, he sold it to IBM, before he bought it from SCP. > >> And then there was BASIC... basically stolen also... Billy Gates >> inventing >> BASIC is almost as laughable as ALGORE inventing the internet... now that I >> think of it... BASIC is the *only* program Billy ever "wrote".... hmmm. >> > > Not even that. > The bulk of the code was written by Paul Allen. BG merely (re)wrote > history.. > > Theo > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
