Richard Crowley wrote:

"S O'Neill" wrote ...

Seattle Computer developed QDOS, which is what Moft acquired. Gary
Kildall (DR) was just asleep at the switch.


Seattle Computer was a DR dealer. I've seen the identical
object code from DRDOS to MSDOS. Agreed that Kildall
was no match for Gates in the business acumen arena.


Of course, DR was CP/M, the OS of the day, so everyone was a DR dealer.
And QDOS sure was a lot like CPM (as was MS-DOS); it was basically the
same thing ported to Intel's new terminal controller chip (8088 in
"maximum mode").