Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!maytag!watstat!dmurdoch From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: distinguishing between MS and IBM(PC) DOS Message-ID: <1354@maytag.waterloo.edu> Date: 22 Jan 90 19:39:13 GMT References: <5134@solo6.cs.vu.nl> <261@utrcu1.UUCP> <2638@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Sender: daemon@maytag.waterloo.edu Reply-To: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 12 In article <2638@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> kaleb@mars.UUCP (Kaleb Keithley) writes: >Which means that Olivetti licensed it's DOS from IBM rather than Microsoft, >therefore, it's really PC-DOS instead of MS-DOS. This raises the question: is there any systematic difference between MS-DOS and PC-DOS, other than who collected the royalties and what "ver" prints? In other words, a question to the original poster: why would anyone want to distinguish between them? Duncan Murdoch