On 01/04/2017 10:32 PM, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
BTW, in one of those Byte issues, there's an article by Gary Paterson,
of Seattle Computer, who developed what he called Q-DOS, and intended it to be just a development system, while waiting for CP/M-86 to be released. This is what Bill Gates sold to IBM, before he actually owned it.
My understanding is the Q-DOS stood for Quick and Dirty Operating System. It was a 16 bit CP/M look similar. Ugly. It was an something so he could sell hardware.
As I mentioned, it was originally intended to give SCP something to test with, while waiting for CP/M-86. It looked like CP/M for that reason. In fact, in a lawsuit against Microsoft, Gary Kildall proved in court, that MS-DOS contained CP/M code. Incidentally, Q-DOS originally stood for "Quick and Dirty Operating System. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org