Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Alpha release Linux/GNU/X unix clone on CDROM for PCs From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 19:14:24 GMT
In article <1992Dec7.141011.7635@csd.uwe.ac.uk> d_smith@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Dylan Smith) writes:
>In article <ByLn10.GLv@digiboard.digibd.com> rhealey@dellr4.digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov30.041609.14502@leland.Stanford.EDU>, dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
>> No, Bill threw it back in to the stone ages. QDOS, from which
>> MSDOS was derived, was a quicky attempt at an 8086 port of
>> CP/M. CP/M-86 was available but Digital Research was out playing
>
>Especially as CP/M already had a multitasking version (Concurrent CP/M-86).
>I actually have used it, and it worked well.
And it's now called DR DOS.
--Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP