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From: Tim Bierman
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 14:22

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In article <787292318snz@nuldev.demon.co.uk>
           John@nuldev.demon.co.uk "John Boyne" writes:

> 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.

Not surprised. These two always felt remarkably like the old DEC PDP10 stuff
I used at university back in 1970. DEC -> Digital Research -> CP/M ->
Seattle -> DOS -> Microsoft -> MSDOS. Probably some of the longest-lived
awful code in existence (but I'll forgive TP, since he had the honesty to
call it quick and dirty ... I just won't forgive those who've refused to
give us anything cleaner [but preferably still quick :)] since).

--
Tim

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