30 Jul
2024
30 Jul
'24
1:20 p.m.
On 7/29/24 19:21, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jul 2024, Murray McCullough via cctalk
wrote:
I had not realized that 43 yrs. ago Microsoft
purchased 86-DOS for
$50,000
– US not Cdn. money. With this purchase the PC industry, IBM’s version
thereof, began. I remember using it to do amazing things, moreso than
what
8-bit machines could do!
Initially MS-DOS and PC-DOS differed only in name and
trivial items,
such as "IO.SYS" and "MSDOS.SYS" being renamed "IBMBIO.COM"
and
"IBMDOS.COM"
When changes were made, Microsoft's and IBM's version numbers were
separated.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
And I learned last week that DOS is still alive, and well, and damned
expensive.
Tuxera Systems acquired Datalight in 2019 and now sells ROM-DOS. They
claim it's still fully compatible with MS-DOS.
Single User ROM-DOS costs $55 USD, and the SDK for building it embedded
is "Call for a Quote".
They're apparently pretty active with the Cease & Desist action - none
of their products are "out there" in the usual places.
Long Live DOS!
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