4 Dec
2003
4 Dec
'03
12:42 p.m.
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 11:56, Fred Cisin wrote:
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.
OK, so I specifically recall "89DOS", and it's stapled yellow books.
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.
Anyone else recall anything abou this OS?