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From: mwm@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike  Meyer, My watch has windows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
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Date: 14 Feb 88 22:30:40 GMT
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>> Bad news.  Bad information.  Seattle Computer wrote the first version of
>> what later became MS-DOS, but did NOT have anything to do with the design
>> of the IBM PC.  Seattle Computer's DOS (which I think, but am not certain,
>> was called QDOS, for Quick DOS) was intended only to provide a CP/M-like
>> interface to their 8086 computer, which I believe, but am again not certain,
>> was an S-100 bus machine.

Further point - SCP did QDOS (as already reported, Quick and Dirty OS)
because DRI was being slow about getting CP/M-86 out. That was what
SCP had meant to put on their board.

All of this can be found in an article in Byte on MS-DOS. Go back at
least three years, though.

	<mike