[A83] Re: Crappy IE 6.0 [OT]

To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: [A83] Re: Crappy IE 6.0 [OT]
From: Gavin Olson <gtolson@snet.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 14:52:44 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200112031958.TAA12561@chup-a-chup.scarlet.nl>
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org


Yah.  Then there was QDOS (Quick & Dirty OS)

At 06:54 PM 12/3/01 +0100, you wrote:

> > Van: Xavier LaRue <paxl@ca.inter.net>
> >
> > On Monday 03 December 2001 07:15 am, you wrote:
> > > > > Can Micro$oft do anything right?
> > > >
> > > >=20
> > > > Notepad, Calc, DirectX, Win2k....
> > >
> > > Paintbrush!
> >
> > Dos ;) Win 3.1 ;)
>
>Hey, that should be MS-DOS... Microsoft didn't invent DOSes at all...
>
>Just a little history:
>D.O.S. = Disk Operating System
>
>In the 'age' that computers only had RAM and ROM (much like our Ti's)
>people started to invent all sorts of external storage devices. These
>needed a special way of communicating with (much like communication with
>the LCD-driver-chip), some routines (I/O, formating, disk-stats) glued
>together with some nice text interface formed a so called DOS.
>
>         Henk Poley <><

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[A83] Re: Crappy IE 6.0 [OT]

From: "Henk Poley" <HPoley@DDS.nl>