Who invented DOS?

[Jim Leonard]

Tom Jennings wrote:
>> That was barely honored outside of Microsoft-land (and sometimes not 
>> even). I would wager that less than 1% of all DOS command-line 
>> programs honor SWITCHAR.
> 
> Yeah, why use OS services? They just get in the way!

Don't blame us!  It's not like there was a lot of documentation* or published 
standards or anything.  Hell, a common way to figure out how to work the 
machine in the early days was by loading programs into DEBUG!

* for people without money to buy it :-)
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