Re: DOS 1.x ?

[duncan.scott@dclink.com (Duncan Scott)]

Pim Blokland <pDOTblokland@spcgroup.nl> wrote:

>Tom Lavedas wrote:
>> 
>>> I have acquired a collector's item, an Apple IIe (...)
>>> Where can I get a bootup floppy of DOS to get things going?
>> 
>> You are kidding, right?  DOS is an operating system for 'IBM' PC's and
>> in not appropriate for any Apple machine. 

>Alright, alright, the original poster should not have posted in
>comp.os.msdos.misc. That was a mistake. But that's no reason to reply
>with pure nonsense.
>I, mean, how wrong can you be? The operating system for PC's is called
>MS-DOS. (The 'IBM' version is called PC-DOS, but it's basically the
>same.)
>The operating system for Apples, though, is called DOS.

>> Go to an Apple/Mac group for
>> info on the availability of operating systems for your machine.

>Why Mac? The IIe is not a Mac.
>And besides, AFAIK there never was an OS for the Mac called 'DOS'.
>-- 
>Pim Blokland
>if replying by e-mail, replace the DOT in my name with a dot
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There was an IBM big-iron DOS as well. 

(BTW, who's Michel Maisonneuve and what did he do to you?)