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From: pet... Loren Petrich
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 00:00

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In article <32f5b72c.1563549@news>,
Martin Gregorie <gregorie@see.sig.for.address> wrote:
>nxh...@leonard.anu.edu.au (Nathan Hand) wrote:

>>Those who do not know history are doomed to relive it... poorly.
>As shown well by the computer industry:

>- First there were mainframe O/S horrors such as OS/360 and its
>predecessors, but some people did better and built George II, Multics,
>and MCP

	How was OS/360 so terrible?

>- then minicomputers were invented and the state of o/s art reverted
>to the likes of RSTS. Once again some people did better and came up
>with UNIX (in 1970/71) and TOPS

	How was RSTS so terrible?

>- then microcomputers were invented and  - you guessed it - the O/S of
>choice turned out to be CP/M (based on RSTS, in 1978, yet!).
>QDOS/MS-DOS is an obvious rip-off of CP/M rather than something more
>advanced.

	Actually, CP/M was based on RT-11 -- and QDOS/MS-DOS was in fact 
a port of CP/M to the Intel-x86 architecture.
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Subject: Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!
Date: 1997/02/03
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