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From: ed@alt.dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: What happened to the Wendin brothers?
Message-ID: <4016@alt.dah.sub.org>
Date: 26 Nov 90 20:48:21 GMT
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Organization: Public Access UNIX System for Landkreis/Stadt Dachau, Germany
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davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:

>  Wendin had unix and VMS clones out some years ago, which would run
>three users on an XT, with some happiness. They were subsets, too, but
>useful if your problem fit their solution.

What happened to the Wendin brothers?  The last I heard they got
bought out by Microsoft.  Out of frustration they had written their own
version of DOS which was supposedly compatible to the Microsoft product,
but had the Wendin multitasking extensions built in.  Did Microsoft 
ever use any of their technology?  

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