Who invented DOS?

[Tom Jennings]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:

> 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 :-)

Well that's perfectly true. It all seems so haphazard in retrospect.