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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Message-ID: <676@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 03:34:24 GMT
References: <4746@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1430@husc2.UUCP> <4227@utai.UUCP> <462@picuxa.UUCP> <1446@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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Keywords: Intel IBM

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.

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.

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame