Re: Help WD1002: Save my reputation: The GOTCHA

Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

Article #1173

Back to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Previous Next

#1173

From: John Boyne
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 04:18

26 lines
1901 bytes

In article <787278865snz@boxatrix.demon.co.uk>
           stub@boxatrix.demon.co.uk "Stuart Baldwin" writes:

[snip]

> Not sure of the details, but I believe that debug and edlin are the two
> utilities that IBM insisted remain unchanged over successive MSDOS
> versions.  They are both, therefore, very old and could well have
> been written by the same person way back in the beginning of MSDOS
> (possibly even by Bill himself?).

[snip]

Both were written by Tim Paterson, the author of QDOS (Quick and Dirty
Operating System) while working for Seattle Computers. Microsoft bought
QDOS and hired Tim Paterson to modify it a bit and called it MSDOS.

  Cost Microsoft $10,000

Trivia from "Undocumented DOS" first edition.

-- 
| Me:    John Boyne               |  Books impede the persistence         |
| Aka:   Suffix Software          |  of Stupidity! -- Dunno Who.          |
| Doing: Small Software Projects  |    (Stupid Books Excepted 8-)) -- Me. |
|   John@nuldev.demon.co.uk       | If it Can't go wrong - it will!       |

Technical Details

Message-ID: <787292318snz@nuldev.demon.co.uk>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!demon!nuldev.demon.co.uk!John

References: <786917270snz@cdsl.demon.co.uk> <787264050snz@cdsl.demon.co.uk> <787278865snz@boxatrix.demon.co.uk>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,c822ab6a2a9cbfaa
X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public
X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,c822ab6a2a9cbfaa
X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-12 20:47:06 PST
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,demon.tech.pc
From: John@nuldev.demon.co.uk (John Boyne)
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!demon!nuldev.demon.co.uk!John
Subject: Re: Help WD1002: Save my reputation: The GOTCHA
References: <786917270snz@cdsl.demon.co.uk> <787264050snz@cdsl.demon.co.uk> <787278865snz@boxatrix.demon.co.uk>
Reply-To: John@nuldev.demon.co.uk
X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.29
Lines: 26
X-Posting-Host: nuldev.demon.co.uk
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 04:18:38 +0000
Message-ID: <787292318snz@nuldev.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk

Reply to Parent Message