Re-compiling old DOS

From: Richard A. Cini, Jr. <rcini_at_email.msn.com>
Date: Sat Jul 18 07:40:12 1998

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:45:11 +1 "Hans Franke" <franke_at_sbs.de> wrote:

> 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.

    What is a DEC 2020?

Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini_at_msn.com>
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