Re: Application Chauvinism

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From: Bruce Ediger
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 00:00

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cg@myrias.ab.ca wrote:
:    In the meantime, one of the 8086/8088 makers hacks up CP/M to run
:	on their new box. This isn't too hard since there was a translator
:	which translated 8080 assembler sources into 8086 assembler.
:
:    System ships with this hacked up OS. Digital Research still not done.
:
:    Microsoft buys rights to hacked OS, and licenses it to IBM as PC-DOS
:	for IBM's new IBM-PC.

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?

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From: bediger@teal.csn.net (Bruce Ediger)
Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism
Date: 1995/06/19
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