Who invented DOS?

[Jim Leonard]

Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:
> I'm not asking, but others are: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/03/msdos_paternity_dispute/

Well, that's a can of worms.  Who invented the concepts?  Gary, who invented 
CP/M.  Who wrote the code?  Tim.

I have a video clip of Tim specifically talking about how he modeled it after 
CP/M as interviewed in Cringley's Triumph Of The Nerds documentary from 1995. 
There's no dispute (at least in 1995) that DOS was modeled after CP/M.  The use 
of Int 21 is also a clue.

You could make a case that CP/M was modeled after Unix, but we won't go there :-)
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