Re: Currant Bun

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From: Trevor Best
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Sam Wilson <Sam.Wilson@ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> I was thinking more widely than that.  IBM's DOS for the 360 mainframe
> series, for example; Apple DOS for the Apple ][ floppy systems and
> others.  Before Mr. Gates got his hands on it the term "DOS" was more or
> less generic for any Disk Operating System.

Ah yes, when acronyms meant ehat they mean instead of being copyrighted,
tradmarked or registered by some company.

> FWIW CP/M also "borrowed" its syntax and probably its internal structure
> from Digital's minicomputer OSs, especially RT-11.  When Digital got into
> the embryo PC market in about 1982 one of their managers was heard to
> remark that CP/M-86 was just like RT-11 version 1 without the built in
> utility programs.  RT-11 reached version 4 that year; new versions came
> out about every 2-3 years.

ISTR CP/M-86's help being remarkably similar to VMS.

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From: "Trevor Best" <trevor@besty.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/26
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