Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ??? | Date | 9 Dec 2002 16:26:57 -0800 |
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Followup to: <200212090808.34598.pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil> By author: Jesse Pollard <pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > People actually started new, incompatible OSes from time to time, for > > which there were no applications, and some of those actually succeeded? > > No - they have pretty much all failed except M$, and that one is showing > cracks. >
M$ started by buying an OS called QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System -- I kid you not), which was a quick-hack clone of CP/M intended to get a chance to test ports of hardware and software from CP/M-80 before CP/M-86 came out.
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