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From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Fri Sep 18 14:47:07 1998

Phil Clayton <handyman_at_sprintmail.com> wrote:
> BTW: Does anyone have a genuine copy of DOS ver 1.0 ?

What kind of DOS? I've used several different operating systems on radically
different machines that all were called DOS version 1.0.

Assuming you're talking about IBM-DOS, though, I do have a copy somewhere.
I don't recall whether it was version 1.0 or 1.00.

AFAIK, Microsoft never released MS-DOS with a version number of 1.0. The
earliest I ever saw was 1.11, released at about the same time as IBM DOS 1.10,
and soon followed by MS-DOS 1.25.

Personally, I think 86-DOS and QDOS are more interesting. I've got an 86-DOS
manual set but no disks.
Received on Fri Sep 18 1998 - 14:47:07 BST