Who invented DOS?

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Fri Mar 4 22:37:13 CST 2005


> I suspect that it might be very well be a corruption of the story
> about Randy Cook's easter egg in TRS-DOS, that showed up in NewDOS
> prior to NEWDOS80. That one really DID exist.

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Terry Yager wrote:
> That's funny, because the first time I heard the story a few years back, it
> was a lawsuit between AT&T and SCO over the rights to unix.  (Or was it
> MicroSoft and Xenix...???)  Should this discussion be moved to the urban
> legend mailing list?

I have invoked the easter egg in TRS-DOS 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and NewDos 2.1.
Have you seen such an easter egg in any other OS?

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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com


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