>Date:    Sun, 30 May 1999 19:46:10 -0500
>From:    Howard Traxler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: First OS, CLI or GUI
>
>In 1982 when I got my first Apple // plus, PC meant Personal Computer; not
>a trademark or brand.
>
>Later, when I started to learn about the "IBM world",DOS meant to me Disk
>Operating System; not a trademark or brand.
>
>
>At 09:13 AM 5/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>I first encountered DOS in 1984 when I used Wordperfect to edit COBOL
>>programs at college.  Prior to that, I had already been working on

You're right.  I meant to say 'PC-DOS' or 'MS-DOS', not just 'DOS'.  I
violated my own rule there.  Prior to learning MS-DOS, I had used Data
General 'RDOS' (Real-Time Disk Operating System) on a minicomputer.

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