[Ham-Computers] Re Upgrades Windows 98 And Spell Check

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Actually, to correct some historical inaccuracies in this thread, although 
"DOS" in the past say five years, maybe more, has come to be assumed to mean 
MSDOS, at the time most of these anecdotes took place, there were quite a few 
different versions of "DOS" (which merely means Disk Operating System).  MSDOS 
was originally IBMDOS (Gates and an associate whose name is probably lost 
developed it originally for Big Blue).  There were also several flavors of Commodore 
DOS, Apple DOS, etc. etc. etc.  Somehow, Gates managed to split off (and 
rename) MSDOS from IBM and started marketing it to other computer manufacturers.  
CP/M (Control Program for Microprocessors) is also a "DOS".

Now why the disk operating subsystem named the Operating System (OS) for so 
long, I have no idea and probably never did.

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