PSU uses emacs?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <94cktu$d9c$1 at news.wrc.xerox.com>, Mark Jackson wrote:

>> This is speculation, based on the philosophical attitudes I have observed in
>> the two groups concerned. 8^} Who designed DOS anyway, Gary Kildall wasn't
>> it?
>
>That was CP/M, the 16-bit version of which was considered by IBM for
>their PC but not chosen.  MS-DOS was first licensed and then purchased
>by Microsoft from Seattle Computer Products.  It was written by Tim
>Paterson; heavy CP/M influence is evident, but it was far from a
>clone.  See Paul Ceruzzi, /A History of Modern Computing/.

Looked like a clone to me.  Virtually identical FCB structure,
BIOS entry point at 0x0005, same executable layout, etc. etc.

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