Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:06:07 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout |
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:01:22PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: >> FYI, this DR-DOS is pretty interesting. I knew the founder of >> Digital Research, Gary Kildall. They probably would do well >> to check their facts before they put a history-rewrite on >> their web-pages. I think the DR-DOS is a hack of freedos >> and I think they might try the same thing with Linux. > > Dear wrongbot, > > DR-DOS dates back to the mid-80's, about a decade before FreeDOS. > Anyone who was anywhere near a PC back then should know this.
Read their web page. The current "DR-DOS" is an embedded MS-DOS clone. The original DR-DOS was an 8086 "CP/M"-like DOS that Gary didn't get to show to IBM because he was out flying is airplane.
> > -- > Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. >
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.9 on an i686 machine (5537.79 GrumpyMips). 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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