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From: Sean Werkema
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 00:00

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>| Isn't there a persistent rumor to the effect that if you looked in
>| the MS-DOS 1.0 files (COMMAND.COM and those two other magical files)
>| for printable strings, you could find "(C) 198x, Digital Research"?
>| 
>| Can someone confirm or deny this?

>If any part of the code was copyright DR this notice would appear. The
>original operating system was written by one person (who's name I forget
>but have somewhere), at Seattle Computer Systems, as a way to sell their
>8086 processor boards for the IEEE-488 (S-100) bus. They also sold
>memory and disk controller cards.

It was Tim Patterson, if I recall correctly (don't shoot me if my memory lacks 
parity bits).
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From: stw113@psu.edu (Sean Werkema)
Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism
Date: 1995/06/24
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