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Re: Platform of choice (very long) or, I Hate Holy Wars
Subject:Re: Platform of choice (very long) or, I Hate Holy Wars From:Bob Morrisette <robert -dot- morrisette -at- EBAY -dot- SUN -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:08:16 -0800
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>To be fair, Microsoft bought the rights to MS-DOS; it didn't itself
>develop it. It did a superb job of marketing it, however.
Microsoft bought a primitive DOS called QDOS from Seattle Computer
Company. It was a major programming effort by Microsoft to
convert QDOS to MS-DOS.
Bob Morrisette
writer -at- sabu -dot- EBay -dot- sun -dot- com
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