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In article <4f8a2s$sgq@natasha.rmii.com>,
   jcoffin@rmii.com (Jerry Coffin) wrote:

>                      [....]  If you want an idea of how much MS has
>changed DOS, pull out a copy of MS-DOS 1.0, and see how many of your
>current programs will run on it.  Then keep in mind that even DOS 1.0
>was already changed considerably compared to 86-DOS.

In fact, I'd like to do just that, out of sheer curiosity.  Is it still
possible to get hold of DOS 1.x?  Granted, it's still copyrighted
material, but I doubt MS has much hope of making further money off of it!
(Rendered obsolete by all those later meaningless features and optimizations,
dontcha know.)

>Finally, keep in mind that MS-DOS is _far_ from the only system MS has
>written over the years: MS is also largely or completely responsible for
>OS/2, Windows NT and Xenix.

Windows NT:  perfectly correct.  Xenix:  I don't know how much is Microsoft's
and how much is SCO's.  OS/2:  Microsoft collaborated with IBM on v1.0; I sure
wouldn't boast about that version, and in fact MS doesn't.

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