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From: Uncle Roger <sinasohn_at_ricochet.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, 22 May 1998 3:18
Subject: Re: IBM PC DOS 1.00, anybody???
>At 10:17 PM 5/19/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>> anybody have IBM PC DOS 1.00? or know of where I may d/l it from the net
>>> somewhere??
>>
>>Lad, we don't do that here. Copyright situation. Besides, PC-DOS 1.0
>
>I don't know for sure, but knowing M$, I strongly suspect that they still
>retain the rights to it as a commercial product (and all versions since),
>unlike Apple, which makes the 6.0.x and 7.0 versions of the MacOS available
>for free from their FTP site.
>
>Perhaps the original poster was thinking that M$ might be so gracious as to
>do as Apple did? (Woooheee.... Boy, I crack myself up sometimes... 8^)
>
>
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well there was talk at sometime that Microsoft was going to make DOS
shareware.........
dont know what evunated out of it but isnt Win 98 the last OS to have
MS-DOS??
so whenever they release a next OS that would be the time they make DOS
shareware.........
this is probably so they dont have to support it anymore........
Received on Fri May 22 1998 - 02:19:49 BST