[Milsurplus] IBM PC

[Scott Johnson]

Could we maybe agree to end the geek thread?  It is giving me acne and
making me go nearsighted.  I am embarrassed to talk to my wife!

Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
To: <die at dieconsulting.com>
Cc: "Ray Fantini" <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] IBM PC


> Dave Emery wrote:
>
> >         John is confused here.   The term DOS stood for Disk Operating
> > System and was used by quite a few different and unrelated companies to
> > name their operating system for use with disk hardware back in the 60s
> > and early 70s.
>
> Mr. Emery is the confused one. He PROVES it in the second sentence of the
above
> paragraph. My point was that DOS was around well before CPM, the TRS-90,
or ANY of the
> micros.
>
> -John
>
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