In news:cj3f451hj8qirkc51t1hu27qfkuo7jggs7@4ax.com,
AJL typed on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:22:02 -0700:
> "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>
>> I don't remember any DOS v1.0
>
> DOS is a generic term. There were many variations of DOS. MS-DOS, PC
> DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS, PTS-DOS, ROM-DOS, JM-OS, and several others.
> There was a V1.0 for MS-DOS which is probably what the author intended
> to say.

PC-DOS v1.0 was the same as QDOS v1.0. I don't believe there was a
MS-DOS v1.0 ever. And I don't believe PC-DOS v1.0 was ever released. As
IBM reworked much of the original and I don't believe they called the
reworked version 1.0.

The first MS-DOS version I used was v2.11. I was using DEC RT-11 and
CP/M before that. I can't recall the earliest version of PC-DOS I used,
but I know I had PC-DOS v3.3 and I liked MS-DOS v2.21 much better.

>> Now I see Windows 7 has a XP compatibility mode.
>> Which will just cause XP to live out a much longer lifespan
>> of any OS before or after it. <grin>
>
> Naw, DOS will still be king. You will just have to run a DOS window in
> your XP window... 8-O

Naw... DOS was great but it never had the followers that XP did. Not
even close. And XP is the standard that will haunt Microsoft for many
years to come. And which all OS now and in the future will be measured
against.

--
Bill
Windows XP Pro SP2 (5.1.2600)
Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC