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>| > Whatever do they teach kids in school these days?
>
>| It's funny that many DOS users don't know that their beloved OS is based
>| heavily on CPM. In fact Ver 1.0 of MS-DOS looked like a recompiled CPM
>| with a few modifications.
>
>Believe it or not, MS-DOS actually WAS a recompiled version of CP/M.. !! 
>Bill Gates stole the CP/M code (bought it cheap, re-compiled, and sold to 
>IBM with copyright, etc. to himself... )  So CP/M lives even in '95, eh? :)
>

Wrong.  The license for QDOS, which was produced by a Seattle 
company and ran on early (non-IBM) 8086-based systems, was purchased by 
MicroSoft.  While QDOS had some similarities to CP/M, it was not the 
same code.  Yes, DOS has several command names in common with CP/M; but 
so did VMS on DEC Vaxen.  Yes, parts of the software interrupt and BIOS 
structure were similar, but the standards were widely published, and 
I'd guess the intent was to make life easier for those developing DOS 
applications.