RE: tlug: FW: Windows 95

["Jonathan Byrne--3Web" <jq@example.com>]

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>From: "Jonathan Byrne--3Web" <jq@example.com>
>Subject: RE: tlug: FW: Windows 95
>Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 13:23:24 +0900
>
>> Microsoft didn't write MS-DOS, they bought it, so I don't think so.  I'll
>
>Are you referring to CP/M?   I thought that they did esentially
re-write/port
>it for the IMB PC.


No, I'm not.  Microsoft bought DOS from another company and did little or
nothing other than rename it to Microsoft DOS before getting it adopted by
IBM as the PC operating system.  If DOS is a CP/M port, this is A) News to
me, and B) Something that wasn't done by MS.

Jonathan

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