Re: Apple ]['s Disk operating System?

[ralphp@gcstation.net (Ralph Wade Phillips)]

In article <3319b18d.1260713@news.odyssee.net>, percim@odyssee.net (Mark
Percival) wrote:

> On Sat, 01 Mar 1997 06:37:08 +0000, Ruel@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> >Paul Creager wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> >I was told that MS-Dos was a derivative of the original PC-Dos that
> >MicroSoft wrote for IBM.
> 
> Up to DOS 3.3, I don't believe there even was a official Microsoft
> version of DOS.  All versions were marketed as PC-DOS from IBM even
> though Microsoft actually wrote it.

        Not as a separate retail product, no.  However, I have a couple of
copies of Telix MSDOS 3.21 ... and do remember running ZDos 1.21 (the
version of MSDOS with Zeniths' proprietory extensions for the Z100 family
...

        Just more FYI than anything! <B-)

        OOTC - Anyone have any version of Apple DOS previous to 3.1???

        RwP

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