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- From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: kbhit -> Linux?
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 96 02:29:54 GMT
- Organization: City Zen FM
- Message-ID: <828584994snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
- References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960329134725.22749A-100000-100000@pooh.kluge.net> <bnelsonDp2D0K.I8p@netcom.com> <4jmg0cINN6gq@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <828393156snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> <31627B5A.446B@wight.hursley.ibm.com>
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- In article <31627B5A.446B@wight.hursley.ibm.com>
- dwater@hursley.ibm.com "Max Waterman" writes:
-
- > Tom Wheeley wrote:
- > >
- > > (oh, and MS _didn't_ write EDLIN; it came with QDOS, which they bought and
- > > prospered from.)
- >
- > I heard that QDOS stood for Quick and Dirty Operating System - is this true or
- > is it
- > being fascecious (however you spell that!) - like NTSC standing for Never The
- > Same
- > Colour!
-
- That is true (AFAIK). Note also that every .EXE file starts with `MZ', being
- the initials of its creator.
-
- .splitbung, who is getting _severely_ off topic :)
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