Re: Application Chauvinism

Article View: alt.comp.shareware

Article #179

Back to alt.comp.shareware Previous Next

#179

From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 00:00

22 lines
2345 bytes

In article <3s4r1m$d29@news-4.csn.net>,
Bruce Ediger <bediger@teal.csn.net> wrote:

| 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.

The o/s was made to look a lot like CP/M-80 (from DR) and was sold by
Seattle Comp. as "QDOS," the quick and dirty operating system.
-- 
Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.
	Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) consultant/director
TMR does UNIX and other systems stuff, some real time, network and
system admin, security, C and other good stuff.

Technical Details

Message-ID: <3s97ba$kg1@glacial.tmr.com>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References:

<3s47oa$s9k@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <3s4a89$5fu@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3s4i84$khm@tribune.Myrias.AB.CA> <3s4r1m$d29@news-4.csn.net>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 10f6aa,8c87df0270b8463b
X-Google-Attributes: gid10f6aa,public
X-Google-Thread: f7a5e,8c87df0270b8463b
X-Google-Attributes: gidf7a5e,public
X-Google-Thread: 10afa1,8c87df0270b8463b
X-Google-Attributes: gid10afa1,public
X-Google-Thread: f71eb,8c87df0270b8463b
X-Google-Attributes: gidf71eb,public
X-Google-Thread: 1117c9,8c87df0270b8463b
X-Google-Attributes: gid1117c9,public
X-Google-Thread: fd6ed,8c87df0270b8463b
X-Google-Attributes: gidfd6ed,public
X-Google-Thread: 102bfa,8c87df0270b8463b
X-Google-Attributes: gid102bfa,public
X-Google-Thread: 108c83,8c87df0270b8463b
X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public
From: davidsen@glacial.tmr.com (Bill Davidsen)
Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism
Date: 1995/06/21
Message-ID: <3s97ba$kg1@glacial.tmr.com>
X-Deja-AN: 104959830
references: <3s47oa$s9k@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <3s4a89$5fu@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3s4i84$khm@tribune.Myrias.AB.CA> <3s4r1m$d29@news-4.csn.net>
organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
reply-to: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
newsgroups: alt.comp.shareware,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc,alt.sources,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer.turbovision,alt.fan.bill-gates,aus.computers,aus.computers.ibm-pc,alt.sources,aus.sources,comp.sys.ibm.pc

Reply to Parent Message