Re-compiling old DOS

From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter_at_shell.monmouth.com>
Date: Sat Jul 18 08:13:10 1998

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> On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:45:11 +1 "Hans Franke" <franke_at_sbs.de> wrote:
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> > 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?
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> >>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>
> - ClubWin! Charter Member
> - MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
> - Preserver of "classic" computers
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A DEC2020 is a small member of the DEC 36 bit family of mainframes.
They ran the Tops-10 or Tops-20 or Tenex OS's (or modified
varients of them).

There was the KA-10, KI-10, KL-10 and KS-10. The 2020 was the KS-10
and was a common timesharing system for small software development
departments.

Bill


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