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- From: lowen@lorc.UUCP (Lamar Owen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Whence Unix? (was Re: IS UNIX DEAD?) (New Thread?)
- Message-ID: <hT8BrAbBBh107h@lorc.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 10:57:21 -0500
- References: <1992Nov9.130449.1@mdcbbs.com> <Bx9vDB.8HI@unix.amherst.edu> <STEVEV.92Nov13100727@miser.uoregon.edu>
- Organization: LORC Enterprises
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- In <STEVEV.92Nov13100727@miser.uoregon.edu> stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) writes:
- >In article <1dvltdINN6i4@skat.usc.edu> jlowrey@skat.usc.edu (John 'Fritz' Lowrey) writes:
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- > My seed:
- > Microsoft DOS -> Intended as a stepping stone while DR
- > wrapped up CP/M-86, and now the program
- > loader of choice for countless millions.
-
- >You really need to study up on your computing history. You seem
- >to imply that Microsoft got MS-DOS from Digital Research.
- >Microsoft got MS-DOS from a small firm called Seattle Computer,
- >which had written a quick-and-dirty CP/M clone called SC-DOS.
- >Then Microsoft hacked it up and marketed the hell out of it.
-
- The original marketing niche for MS-DOS was as a stepping stone from the
- 8-bit CP/M world to the multiuser 16-bit world of Xenix. Microsoft, in
- the early 80's, fully intended to make Xenix their high-end OS. However,
- the market chose otherwise.
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- >Steve VanDevender
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- Lamar Owen, Systems Consultant, GE Lighting Systems, Hendersonville, NC
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