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Subject: [OT] DOS history, was: [OM] Unknown Wide Zoom Oly Mount
From: Chuck Norcutt <norcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 07:51:47 -0500
Brian said:
Remember DOS? Made by Microsoft...But Microsoft didn't develop DOS,
Seattle
Software developed DOS.
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But Seattle's involvement ended in 1980 after the sale of rights to
Microsoft.  DOS was in a pretty primitive state at the time of the
sale.  Much more development occurred afterwards both by Microsoft and
also by IBM with both companies having rights to the product.  Microsoft
stopped at version 6.2, IBM carried on to version 7.0.  (Microsoft also
had a different version 7 which was generally hidden under Windows).

Chuck Norcutt
Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
(former IBM PC DOS and OS/2 system test manager)

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