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From: mikewa@microsoft.UUCP (Mike Walma)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Message-ID: <1157@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 07:45:49 GMT
References: <4746@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1430@husc2.UUCP> <4227@utai.UUCP> <462@picuxa.UUCP> <1446@sugar.UUCP> <9498@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: mikewa@forward.UUCP (Michael Walma)
Organization: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
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Keywords: Intel IBM

In article <9498@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>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.
>-- 


According to Gordon Letwin, long time software guru here at Microsoft,
Microsoft bought the rights to something called SCP-DOS written by
Tim Paterson at SCP, in or around August 1981.  Microsoft used it
as the basis of MS-DOS 1.0.  Gordon descibes it as a CP/M-80
clone that ran on the 8088's.  My reference for this is Gordon's
new book, Inside OS/2.  If people really need to know more, I suppose
I could ask him for more info.

Mike Walma

Microsoft rarely shares my opinions.