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- From: raster@indirect.com (Charles Dye)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: FREEDOS: did someone see it? (was Re: ANNOUNCE: New Free-DOS
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 00:05:17 GMT
- Organization: Internet Direct, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4f8qbt$n9q@globe.indirect.com>
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- In article <4f8a2s$sgq@natasha.rmii.com>,
- jcoffin@rmii.com (Jerry Coffin) wrote:
-
- > [....] If you want an idea of how much MS has
- >changed DOS, pull out a copy of MS-DOS 1.0, and see how many of your
- >current programs will run on it. Then keep in mind that even DOS 1.0
- >was already changed considerably compared to 86-DOS.
-
- In fact, I'd like to do just that, out of sheer curiosity. Is it still
- possible to get hold of DOS 1.x? Granted, it's still copyrighted
- material, but I doubt MS has much hope of making further money off of it!
- (Rendered obsolete by all those later meaningless features and optimizations,
- dontcha know.)
-
- >Finally, keep in mind that MS-DOS is _far_ from the only system MS has
- >written over the years: MS is also largely or completely responsible for
- >OS/2, Windows NT and Xenix.
-
- Windows NT: perfectly correct. Xenix: I don't know how much is Microsoft's
- and how much is SCO's. OS/2: Microsoft collaborated with IBM on v1.0; I sure
- wouldn't boast about that version, and in fact MS doesn't.
-
- raster@indirect.com
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