<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Here is what Wikipedia saya:</p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px">86-DOS (which imitated CP/M) <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">was purchased by </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Microsoft</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"> and developed further as </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS" title="MS-DOS" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">MS-DOS</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"> and </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_DOS" title="PC DOS" class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">PC DOS</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">. </span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">Microsoft first licensed,</span><sup id="cite_ref-86DOS_license_6-0" class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:0.75em;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial"><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_DOS#cite_note-86DOS_license-6" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background:none"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:none">[</span>6<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:none">]</span></a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"> then purchased</span><sup id="cite_ref-86DOS_sale_7-0" class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:0.75em;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial"><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_DOS#cite_note-86DOS_sale-7" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background:none"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:none">[</span>7<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:none">]</span></a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"> </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS" title="86-DOS" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">86-DOS</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"> from </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products" title="Seattle Computer Products" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Seattle Computer Products</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"> (SCP), which was modified for the IBM PC by Microsoft employee </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_O%27Rear" title="Bob O'Rear" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Bob O'Rear</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"> with assistance from SCP (later Microsoft) employee </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson" title="Tim Paterson" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Tim Paterson</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-DosMan_8-0" class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:0.75em;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial"><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_DOS#cite_note-DosMan-8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background:none"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:none">[</span>8<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:none">]</span></a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">O'Rear got 86-DOS to run on the prototype PC in February 1981. 86-DOS had to be converted from 8-inch to 5.25-inch </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disks" title="Floppy disks" class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">floppy disks</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"> and integrated with the </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS" title="BIOS" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">BIOS</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">, which Microsoft was helping IBM to write.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Ref-2_9-0" class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:0.75em;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial"><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_DOS#cite_note-Ref-2-9" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background:none"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:none">[</span>9<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:none">]</span></a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"> IBM had more people writing requirements for the computer than Microsoft had writing code. O'Rear often felt overwhelmed by the number of people he had to deal with at the ESD (Entry Systems Division) facility in </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boca_Raton" title="Boca Raton" class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Boca Raton</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">. 86-DOS was </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebranded" title="Rebranded" class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">rebranded</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"> IBM PC DOS 1.0 for its August 1981 release with the IBM PC. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">look here: it says here that (like linux) windows started out "inspired" by unix</span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"></span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">Later, a group of Microsoft programmers (primarily </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen" title="Paul Allen" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Paul Allen</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">, </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zbikowski" title="Mark Zbikowski" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Mark Zbikowski</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"> and Aaron Reynolds)</span><sup id="cite_ref-Ref-2_9-1" class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:0.75em;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial"><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_DOS#cite_note-Ref-2-9" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background:none"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:none">[</span>9<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background:none">]</span></a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"> began work on PC DOS 2.0. Completely rewritten from the ground up, DOS 2.0 added subdirectories and hard disk support for the new </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT" title="IBM Personal Computer XT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">IBM XT</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">, which debuted in March 1983. A new 9-sector format bumped the capacity of floppy disks to 360 kB. The </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix" title="Unix" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Unix</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">-inspired kernel featured </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_handle" title="File handle" class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">file handles</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"> in place of the CP/M-derivative file control blocks and loadable device drivers could now be used for adding hardware beyond what the IBM PC BIOS supported. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"></span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">PC-DOS remained a rebranded version of MS DOS until 1993 when IBM and Microsoft parted ways.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">sources:</span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px"></span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_DOS">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_DOS</a></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS</a></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px">kinda interesting reading for a rainy day</p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Todd Millecam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tyggna@gmail.com" target="_blank">tyggna@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://clusterize.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Unix_history-simple_20021.png" target="_blank">http://clusterize.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Unix_history-simple_20021.png</a> Gives a good visual history of the *nix OSes and what they're derived from.<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I was before 9yo (assuming 1980)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div><div><div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:49 AM, koder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iscreamkid@gmail.com" target="_blank">iscreamkid@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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DOS was purchased by Gates from another developer who seems to have
derived it from CP/M<br>
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IBM bought DOS from gates before he even owned it, thus establishing
a pattern of vaporware that persists even today in the Microsoft
marketing system.<br>
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IBM bought DOS from Gates because the owner of DR-DOS decided he
would prefer to be flying his plane than talk to a bunch of
establishment white shirts from IBM.<br>
<br>
Both Gates and Jobs saw the first GUI at Xerox PARC.<br>
<br>
Jobs saw it first and had the first version on the streets.<br>
<br>
When Gates put out Win1.0 ther5e ws a very loud pissing contest and
court suits, that Microsoft won establishing the standard that you
can't copyright the look and feel of an operating system. This gives
us X-Windows.<br>
<br>
The animosity lasted as long as Jobs was alive, alth9ugh they looked
like they had grudgingly kissed and made up at their last public
appearance.<br>
<br>
Ancient history long before many of you were born.<div><div><br>
<br>
<br>
<div>On 12/18/2014 11:34 AM, Stephen
Partington wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">
<p dir="ltr">This is a rather simple answer for a look on story. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU" target="_blank">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU</a><br>
<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows" target="_blank">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows</a><br>
</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 18, 2014 11:29 AM, "Michael
Havens" <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Linux is built off of GNU. What is BSD built
off of? And then there is Windows. I heard that Windows was
built off of Unix. If that is the case was no one paying
attention to copyright laws?<br clear="all">
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<div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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