12 Oct
2011
12 Oct
'11
3:16 a.m.
Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> writes:
The question is whether QDOS/86-DOS/MS-DOS/IBM-DOS
actually contained
any code from CP/M.
Tim Paterson argues (convincingly, to my mind) that it didn't; he
designed the API to be similar to CP/M's to make porting easy, but he
built the guts of the OS from scratch.
His blog's worth reading, particularly the early articles:
http://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/
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Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> <http://offog.org/>