Hey again Carol!

That seemed to work so let us try it again to make sure, although I won't
quote this time.

I think my original thought about some Seattle programmer writing a floppy
disk utility and being bought out by Gates and partner was the origination
of MSDOS.  I also have a real old reference for DOS, which if correct,
makes the early form of DOS big endian like VMS.  I don't recall if this
reference book mentions MS at all so perhaps you are on the right track
with some of your thoughts about DOS's origins, but I still think I am
right about MS and it's foothold in the PC business.

Somewhere in this discussion the truth might be.

I never bothered with PC's until the 386 and at that time was tainted with
VMS and UNIX-think.  I thought DOS was VMS-ish.  Never even heard of CPM
until much later and have absolutely zero experience with it.

- Maurice


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