mwm@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike Meyer, My watch has windows) (02/15/88)
>> Bad news. Bad information. Seattle Computer wrote the first version of >> what later became MS-DOS, but did NOT have anything to do with the design >> of the IBM PC. Seattle Computer's DOS (which I think, but am not certain, >> was called QDOS, for Quick DOS) was intended only to provide a CP/M-like >> interface to their 8086 computer, which I believe, but am again not certain, >> was an S-100 bus machine. Further point - SCP did QDOS (as already reported, Quick and Dirty OS) because DRI was being slow about getting CP/M-86 out. That was what SCP had meant to put on their board. All of this can be found in an article in Byte on MS-DOS. Go back at least three years, though. <mike