Who invented DOS?

[Jim Leonard]

John Allain wrote:
> For people who haven't read it, here's what it said:
> 
> "IIRC, Killdall stood up in court and entered a keystrokes at a PC
>  running MSDOS and brought up an easter egg he had programmed
>  into CP/M years earlier, proving they had used his code."
> 
> "Back in the mid-1990s, PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak wrote
>  something curious about this operating system. He said he knew of an
>  easter egg present in CP/M in the late 1970s that caused Kildall's name
>  and a copyright notice to be printed. Very early versions (presumably
>  before the 1.0 release) of DOS had this same easter egg."

I call bullshit/urban legend.  John C. Dvorak has been fooled many, many times 
before (my favorite is a 286 he reviewed that he claimed blew the doors off of 
everything else; it was found later that the benchmarks he ran on it had been 
fudged by the manufacturer by deliberatly altering the internal clock to run 
slow) so I automatically invalidate his story.
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