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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Keywords: Intel IBM
Message-ID: <9498@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 88 16:34:13 GMT
References: <4746@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1430@husc2.UUCP> <4227@utai.UUCP> <462@picuxa.UUCP> <1446@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <1446@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
| [...]
| For that matter IBM didn't design the IBM-PC. It burst fully fleshed from Zeus'
| head... uh... Seattle Computer Products.

  I don't believe that's correct. SCP wrote a CP/M lookalike called QDOS
(quick and dirty operating system), supposedly done in less than a week
by a resident hacker. I was a dealer for SCP at the time, and they never
gave any indication of development other than S100.

  If someone has some hard facts to the contrary I'd like to see tham.
Rumour need not apply.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me