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Re: Apple ]['s Disk operating System?
Ruel@ix.netcom.com wrote:
: As a matter of fact, I remember being told that MicroSoft actually wrote
: the operating system (DOS 3.1) for Apple.
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.
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