4 Dec
2003
4 Dec
'03
9:55 a.m.
> Patterson of Seattle Computer Products shared a
booth with Microsoft at
> the West Coast Computer Faire, and was "inspired" by the use of it in
> the NEC or NCR "Microsoft Stand Alone BASIC" and used it in QDOS, which
> MICROS~1 bought, and resold (after completion and a few changes) as
> PC-DOS/MS-DOS.
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Tom Jennings wrote:
OK, so I specifically recall "89DOS", and
it's stapled yellow books.
"86" not "89"?
Version 0.86 (duh) and 1.something. I thought it was
seattle comp prod.
I installed it on some '86 machine or other in 1979? 1980? 1981?
It used patterson's one-pass assembler, faster'n'blazes, a CP/M style
jump table, and I thought a FAT-like file system. I don't think it was
the CP/M extent business but it could have been.
It did, indeed use "FAT"
Anyone else recall anything abou this OS?
"86-DOS"
earlier in the process, it had previously been known as QDOS ("Quick and
Dirty OS")
We're talking about different names of the same OS
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