!Re: Nuke Redmond! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Apr 2000

From: "Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner" &lt;spc(a)armigeron.com&gt; and
the Great Richard Erlacher once stated:

...
  > Tim Patterson, who wrote the initial version of
MS-DOS while at Seattle
 > Products, may have had access to CP/M sources since Seattle Products sol d
...
  > CP/M systems and they were working on an 8086
based computer in the late
 > 70s.  Tim probably modeled his QDOS (Quick-n-Dirty Operating System) clo sely
...
  > after CP/M (some say he may have mechanically
translated CP/M since
 > copyright statements to Digital Research have allegedly been found in MS -DOS
...
  > 1.x but I haven't seen any).  Why not?  It
would have been a quick and e asy
...
   way to get an
OS for the 8086 system up and running. 
 I've heard that, too.  Does that mean that anyone who writes a program to do
...
  what he's seen another program do is making a
copy? 
...
 >>  Ask the lawyers or philosophers. 
    I have a copy of DOS 1.1 that I've done a Sourcer disassembly of. I have
not found anything referring to DR or CP/M anywhere in the resulting source.

    Now, one thought that I had is that  there may be a sequence of code
bytes unique to CP/M that was duplicated in DOS (nee, QDOS) by
virtue of directly copying the CP/M source. This would produce a
unique and identifyable signature.

    Since I only have v1.1 to examine and it doesn't have a DR notice,
maybe that's why there's a v1.1 :-).

    If anyone has a copy of 1.0 that they can send me to work on, I'll
do a book report for y'all...

Rich

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