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Master of Reality:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
they stole the windows concept from APPLE when they broke a deal. I can't remember from whom DOS was filched, but everybody knows it was According to this page here and a whole bunch of others that i found, BASIC was developed at Dartmouth College in 1964.

Addendum:
According to this page, Seattle Computer Products originally made the 86-DOS operating system(also called QDOS, for Quick and Dirty Operating System). It was been written by Tim Paterson earlier in 1980.

[ April 23, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
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are you sure? i was certain the ms was in a deal with ibm that they would develop two operating systems together(one server, one desktop OS) and MS squelched on the deal and took the desktop OS (windows)

psyjax:

quote:Originally posted by Master of Reality:

are you sure? i was certain the ms was in a deal with ibm that they would develop two operating systems together(one server, one desktop OS) and MS squelched on the deal and took the desktop OS (windows)
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Actually it was both.

M$ licenced some of Apples code and the ability to use icons and such, to create Win 3.1. But M$ went to far and filched alot more than they were allowed. M$ went to court but Apple lost, not because they were wrong, but because their lawyers made the contract to vague.

IBM asked M$ to help them with OS2/warp, half way in to the project M$ bailed and ran off witha  butload of source. Guess where that ended up?

As for MS DOS, same deal, IBM asked them to help out with PC DOS, half way, they ran off and made MS DOS.

www.osdata.com

http://www.MacKiDo.com/Interface/ui_history.html

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