Pickie deemed a "code archaeologist"

[Brian Speirs]

A recent article in "The Register" (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/05/oldest_ancestor_of_msdos_recovered/) notes that Gene Buckle has found one of the earliest known ancestors of MS-DOS.

To everyone here, Gene hosts the ScarletDME site, and has been active in PICK circles for years.

Cheers,

Brian

[geneb]

Thanks Brian. I'm like a bad penny, I turn up *everywhere*. ;)

g.

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[Steven Martin Trimble]

Great article Brian. I really enjoyed that.

And yes! Thanks sir Gene. We appreciate what you do!

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[geneb]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2024, Steven Martin Trimble wrote:

> Great article Brian. I really enjoyed that.
> And yes! Thanks sir Gene. We appreciate what you do!
>

You're welcome! :)

[geneb]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2024, 'Jay LaBonte' via Pick and MultiValue Databases wrote:

> Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Microsoft purchase CP/M-80 aka QDOS in 1981 which was licensed to IBM as PC-DOS.
>
Not even close. :)

"QDOS" was developed by Tim Patterson at Seattle Computer Products in
1980. It used the same calling convention as CP/M-80 in order to make
porting programs a lot easier. It was later renamed 86-DOS (1980/81) and
Bill Gates got wind of it, bought it and renamed it MS-DOS in order to
provide IBM with an OS for the IBM PC. Both MS-DOS and PC DOS started
from 86-DOS.

[Jonathan Wells]

Great article.  Thank you for posting it.

Jonathan Wells

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[Jay LaBonte]

Very good. I stand corrected. Thank you.


Regards,
Jay LaBonte

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[geneb]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2024, 'Jay LaBonte' via Pick and MultiValue Databases wrote:

> Very good. I stand corrected. Thank you.
>

YW! :)