In news:qnkf45hr4j89u2i0gbjln7b333creeccv2@4ax.com,
AJL typed on :
> "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
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>> I don't believe there was a MS-DOS v1.0 ever.
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> http://www.nukesoft.co.uk/msdos/dosversions.shtml
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> http://www.linfo.org/ms-dos.html
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS#...ote-paterson-1

First of all, show me a picture of MS-DOS v1.0. They called QDOS as
MS-DOS 1.0, but I never seen any MS-DOS v1.0 copies ever and I don't
know what good they were for anyway if they did exists. As they were
only good on the original IBM-PC anyway and they already had PC-DOS
anyway.

I and others wanted Gary Kildall to get off his butt to write CPM-86 for
the Intel 8086 chipset. Gary didn't care and luckily Tim Patterson did
so instead. Gary didn't care until the PC had taken off and then Gary
cared. Then he finally wrote CPM-86 and sold it for over 200 bucks a
piece. Almost nobody bought it of course since PC-DOS was far cheaper
and easier to use. Later CPM-86 became DR-DOS.

And I don't recall any versions of MS-DOS at least commercially before
Compaq created the first IBM clone. And that didn't happen until DOS v2
something from what I recall. Also I don't know if I would trust those
links. As some of them are wrong. I know, since I was there.

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Bill
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