MK> DC> MSDOS comes out with the first 8088 systems!  You are confusing
MK> DC> it with Windows.

MK>Are you sure about that?  I thought DOS back then had nothing to do with MS
MK>and was used for floppy disks on 8088's something like tar

The first DOS was the MS product I think, but check on IBM-DOS?  Only
much later was there a competetor for DOS of any note.  The others were
minor clones (PC-DOS etc, OEM specifics).  DOS came out of CPM which the
first 8088/8086 line of systems ran.  Earliest DOS was CPM backwards
compatible.

       xxcarol


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