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Article #21930Re: Re^2: IBM PC prehistory (was Japanese Jos
From: Gordon LETWIN
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 18:13
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 18:13
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In article <1348@atha.AthabascaU.CA>, rwa@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Ross Alexander) writes: > rec@dg.dg.com (Robert Cousins) writes: > >On a slightly different note, since we are talking about ancient history, > >what was the name of the guy at Seattle Computer who wrote MS-DOS before > >it was sold to Microsoft? > > J. Gordon Letwin, I think. He wrote big chunks of HDOS as well. > > -- > Ross Alexander, (403) 675 6311 rwa@aungbad.AthabascaU.CA Actually, it was Tim Patterson. He's still at Microsoft. I didn't have anything to do with the early DOS code. I got involved in later releases of DOS and OS/2. I did write all of the initial release of HDOS; after I left Heath other folks there - particularly Greg Chandler - made significant enhancements in subsequent releases. Gordon Letwin Microsoft
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!microsoft!gordonl From: gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon LETWIN) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Re^2: IBM PC prehistory (was Japanese Jos Summary: Correct DOS attribution Message-ID: <10129@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 3 Jan 90 18:13:05 GMT References: <21559@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <76700097@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1348@atha.AthabascaU.CA> Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 21