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From: gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon LETWIN)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Re^2: IBM PC prehistory (was Japanese Jos
Summary: Correct DOS attribution
Message-ID: <10129@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 90 18:13:05 GMT
References: <21559@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <76700097@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1348@atha.AthabascaU.CA>
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1348@atha.AthabascaU.CA>, rwa@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Ross Alexander) writes:
> rec@dg.dg.com (Robert Cousins) writes:
> >On a slightly different note, since we are talking about ancient history,
> >what was the name of the guy at Seattle Computer who wrote MS-DOS before
> >it was sold to Microsoft?
> 
> J. Gordon Letwin, I think.  He wrote big chunks of HDOS as well.
> 
> --
> Ross Alexander, (403) 675 6311		rwa@aungbad.AthabascaU.CA

Actually, it was Tim Patterson.  He's still at Microsoft.  I didn't have
anything to do with the early DOS code.  I got involved in later releases
of DOS and OS/2.

I did write all of the initial release of HDOS; after I left Heath other
folks there - particularly Greg Chandler - made significant enhancements in
subsequent releases.

	Gordon Letwin
	Microsoft