Who invented DOS?

[Peter C. Wallace]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
>
>> Also 4DOS (which ISTR is free now) allows use of either / or \ as a 
>> directory character
>
> MSDOS never got better than this for me:
>
> * Bunch of extended, or is that expanded? memory (could never remember
>  which stupid marketing euphemism was which)
> * huge, giant 100MB disk
> * ARCnet
> * MSDOS (not PCDOS) 3 I think
> * 4DOS
> * desqview
> * qmms
> * pmate, lattice C small model, plink (for overlays), masm
>
> That stuff ran just fine. Had a bunch of machines on 10base2
> ARCnet. I got a lot of stuff down with that setup. It was all
> downhill from there for me until I found 386bsd. freeBSD is now as
> good as that (meaning, comfort, concentrate on work not farting
> around with the system, reliability).
>


I still use DOS for our simple PC CAD stuff, I have newer (Mentor) PC CAD but 
the windows mousy interface drives me nuts for long layout sessions. The old 
CAD program  (PADS PCB) uses the function keys on the left hand (IBM AT 84 KB)
and the mouse on the right. No mousey menus to cause you to lose focus from 
the layout...

So we still use DOS with 100BT Ethernet and Samba...

Peter Wallace