Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Anders Carlsson wrote:

>"wildstar128" <wildstar128@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> From what I understood - MS-DOS is based on CP/M.
>
>I dunno about QDOS being "based on", maybe "inspired by" CP/M? 

The "inspiration" was apparently pretty intimate, since Gary
Kildall, the inventor of CP/M said that he recognized certain
code sequences and data layouts in QDOS/MSDOS as
logically identical to their equivalents in CP/M.

Since Gary was not one to point out "trivial" similarities,
I presume he saw this as evidence that the QDOS writer
had a CP/M disassembly at hand--only to resolve corner-
case ambiguities, of course.  ;-)

-michael

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