C integral types [was Re: Semi-OT: Why Kids Can't use Computers] (fwd)

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Well that is true.  DOS was pretty horrible.

A lot of people don't know that it was originally written as a
development system for a hardware manufacturer.  Seattle Computer
Products, a manufacture of S-100 bus hardware, created it for testing
new boards, while waiting for CP/M-86 to be released.  BG then bought
it, after he had already sold it to IBM.  It was originally called QDOS,
for Quick and Dirty Operating System.


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