DOS & MINIX

[Pete Pardoe]

 Jeremy

DOS was created in 1981 MINIX in 1987 so it is hardly possible for DOS to
have been created by taking parts of MINIX.  Do a search of the history of
each on Google.

Pete
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: For users of Fedora Core releases
Date: Thursday, May 13, 2004 6:36:49 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Why Would Fedora be Free ? Can it be Trusted?
 
 
Jeremy Brown wrote:
 
DOS was created by taking Minix and pulling out the parts that made a 
single pc able to boot and run. Early versions of DOS even had the 
Minix strings in the code. I saw that in the DOS 1 code using a hex 
editor. :-)
 
 
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