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Re: Apple ]['s Disk operating System?

Subject: Re: Apple ]['s Disk operating System?
From: percim@odyssee.net (Mark Percival)
Date: 1997/03/01
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Odyssee Internet
References: <330bf90d.824446@news.netins.net> <5eiqce$3g8$1@darla.visi.com> <330d1774.10760372@167.152.149.11> <5elg9l$782@cwis-20.wayne.edu> <33107491.6924567@news.odyssee.net> <3310D240.33DE@ix.netcom.com> <5f42t4$b3s@borg.svpal.org>

On 27 Feb 1997 13:40:52 GMT, wily@svpal.svpal.org (Paul Creager)
wrote:

>Microsoft co-wrote Applesoft Basic, but they had nothing to do with 
>(Apple) DOS.
>
>For that matter, they didn't even write MS-DOS.  They bought QDOS (Quick 
>& Dirty Operating System) from a Seattle company for chump change, 
>renamed it MS-DOS, and the rest is history.

This was true about PC-DOS version 1.0.  When Microsoft did version
2.0 (around 1983) they needed to add so many new features that they
ended up rewriting the whole thing.  Apparently they just kept
modifying the same code until version 6.22 (around 1994).

Mark R. Percival
Montreal, Quebec
percim@odyssee.net

An Apple II fanatic since 1979.

References:
- Re: Apple ]['s Disk operating System
  - From: nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)
- Re: Apple ]['s Disk operating System?
  - From: drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)
- Re: Apple ]['s Disk operating System?
  - From: cplater@rattlehead.pass.wayne.edu (Charles A. Plater)
- Re: Apple ]['s Disk operating System?
  - From: percim@odyssee.net (Mark Percival)
- Re: Apple ]['s Disk operating System?
  - From: Ruel@ix.netcom.com
- Re: Apple ]['s Disk operating System?
  - From: wily@svpal.svpal.org (Paul Creager)

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