28 Jun
2000
28 Jun
'00
2:12 a.m.
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:58:03 -0400 Douglas Quebbeman
<dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com> wrote:
This multitasking DOS 4.0 (from Microsoft, not a third
party)
was supplied with a computer that was old only in either the
UK or more widely in Europe. It seems that the first letter
of the computer manufacturer was an 'A', so the machine could
have been an Apricot, an Amstrad, an Acorn, or lord knows.
I remember this! Only vaguely, though. It was indeed a
multi-tasking version of MS-DOS, supplied by Microsoft to a
UK computer company.
I doubt that Amstrad or Acorn would have done something
like this, so Apricot is the most likely 'A'. However, I
get a (vague) notion that it may have been an ICL product.
--
John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England