"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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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.

DRDOS came _after_ MS-DOS.

Bzzzzt! Yes, of course, I meant CP/M. I was elected VP of the
CP/M Users Group Northwest 20 years ago and my poor memory
is troubling. :-(

Q-DOS was in fact a poor imitation of DR's CP/M, done by
someone who did not really understand why CP/M 2.2 did
some of the things that it did.

But for that matter, most of the CP/M user interface was
cribbed from DEC's RT-11, including even things like the
PIP command and the SYSGEN procedure.

And the story is that after my employer paid Gary Killdal for
one of the first high-level languages for our microprocessors
(PL/M), they rejected the concept of an "operating system" and
Gary went on to create and sell CP/M. Oh well. We're better
at making chips than software.