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From: wargopl@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Why IBM went for the 8088 -- The Untold Story (Seattle Comp.)
Message-ID: <1990May25.085617.22242@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 25 May 90 08:56:17 GMT
References: <451@isgtec.UUCP>
Sender: wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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From article <451@isgtec.UUCP>, by bmw@isgtec.UUCP (Bruce Walker):
> In article <1990May23.154706.16476@sq.sq.com> ian@sq.sq.com (Ian F. Darwin) writes:
>> In fact, dozens or hundreds of people used SC-DOS before IBM bought it from
>> Microsoft who in turn bought it from a small company named Seattle
>> Computing. Microsoft changed the name to obliterate the history,
>> [...]. SC-DOS was originally a clone of CP/M, but done for the 8086,
> 
> More evidence of this turns up in the comment blocks within the example
> drivers provided with the old MSDOS V2.00 OEM Developers disks.  The example
> floppy disk driver and format code mentions Seattle Computing's machine by
> name and provides equates for their S100 based disk controller.
> 
> Also, to this day, one of the magic cookie disk-type values (0xf8 thru 0xff,
> found in the boot block) means eight-inch floppy -- ever see an 8" floppy on
> any MSDOS machine? The Seattle Computing machine had them!
> 

Ever see a Zenith Z-100?  MS-DOS (up to 3.0) and can use 8" sloppies.  Most
I've seen are running 2.0, tho.  (I got two Shugart 8" drives from a RS MOD 2
to run just by plugging them in. Ahh, good ol' SASI....)

Pete

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"I don't believe it - I just spent 4 years at an expensive university-
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