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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ???
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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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