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- From: TheAnalyst@Nfo.Org
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- Subject: Re: FREEDOS: did someone see it? (was Re: ANNOUNCE: New Free-DOS
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 15:10:25 GMT
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- Clemens.Li@oscar.north.de (Clemens Li) wrote:
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- >Hi neeraj and everybody else!
-
- >n> : just want a Microsoft-free DOS. I've made one step in the right
- >n> : direction, running PC DOS, but it's a tiny step, still has lots of MS
- >n> : code. Oh well.
-
- >Microsoft's DOS functions, for shure.
-
- >But their code?
-
- Correct, not their code. MS-DOS was originally called Q-DOS and was written by
- a genius in the seattle (I think seattle) area. M$ bought all rights to it for
- $50,000.
-
- All M$ has done over the years is optimize the code, and added a few meaning
- less features. I think that Win '95 is proof that they couldn't write a descent
- os from scratch if they had to, even Win '95 is based on MS-DOS. Just with a
- GUI.
-
- And lets not spam all those nice programming groups.
-
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