Re-compiling old DOS

From: Hans Franke <franke_at_sbs.de>
Date: Fri Jul 17 09:44:11 1998

> Anyway, this plus a message from one of our own, results in an
> interesting question. How, in 1982 (or in 1980-81, when Project Acorn was in
> beta), would Microsoft have written and compiled DOS 1?

86-DOS (the base of MS-DOS 1.0) at least was developed on
a DEC 2020 station and transfered via serial line to an
INTEL ISIS system for writing Disks, or to the SCP 8086
S100 system for runntime tests.

Gruss
h.

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HRK
Received on Fri Jul 17 1998 - 09:44:11 BST

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