Re: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ???

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
9 Dec 2002 16:26:57 -0800


Followup to: <200212090808.34598.pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil>
By author: Jesse Pollard <pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > People actually started new, incompatible OSes from time to time, for
> > which there were no applications, and some of those actually succeeded?
>
> No - they have pretty much all failed except M$, and that one is showing
> cracks.
>

M$ started by buying an OS called QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating
System -- I kid you not), which was a quick-hack clone of CP/M
intended to get a chance to test ports of hardware and software from
CP/M-80 before CP/M-86 came out.

-hpa

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