[Elecraft] Computers in the Stone Age

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

Folks - lets end this OT thread at this time. Its a little too far afield from 
our regular list content and is overloading the in-boxes of a large number of 
Elecraft readers.

36 posts in a 24 hour period on a Non-Elecraft topic is -way- over the limit. 
Please self limit your postings to OT threads.

In the future, in the interest of keeping list traffic focused primarily on 
Elecraft products and issues for the majproty of our readers, please -strongly- 
resist the urge to reply to an OT topic once it has gone to 5 posts. Once it 
hits ten posts do not reply at all (go off list if you feel the urge to 
continue.) Also, please do not try to always get the 'last word'.

If we see a lot of OT threads hitting the ten posting hard limit we'll be forced 
to reduce this to 5 posts as a -hard- limit.

In general, a few OT posts on not Elecraft ham radio topics are welcomed, but 
longer non-Elecraft threads should be conducted elsewhere. The majority of the 
subscribers prefer to see the vast majority of traffic on this reflector more 
directly Elecraft product related. (Questions, reports on use, problems, product 
announcements etc. )

73,

Eric
List moderator
elecraft.com

On 5/29/2014 5:13 AM, Kevin Stover wrote:
> Neither Gates or Allen had bupkus to do with producing PC-DOS.
> They bought it from Seattle Computer Products in 1981 and modified it to suit 
> IBM.
> They were forced to purchase something off the shelf because they were way 
> behind producing their own.
> The name PC-DOS came from IBM who licensed "MS-DOS".
>
> Another little factoid. If Gary Kildall of Digital Research had been able to 
> come to an agreement with IBM when they came calling (before going to MS), 
> we'd have run CP/M on the first IBM PC's.
>
> People who know say a lot of the internals of MS-DOS look an awful lot like CP/M.
>
> Hmmmm.
>
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