Sanyo DOS was: Re: GRiD and misc

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Jun 17 15:20:12 1999

At 09:29 AM 6/17/99 -0700, Grumpy old Fred wrote:
>On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Marvin wrote:
>> I didn't realize a DOS 1.25 was issued; I only have DOS 1.1 (1.01?)
>
>There was an MS-DOS 1.25, but not a PC-DOS. The second released version of
>PC-DOS was 1.10 Note that the part after the PERIOD was stored
>internally as ten, and the part after the period was then ALWAYS displayed
>as a 2 digit decimal number. MS-DOS was released to other OEMs, who could
>even change the NAME! (Z-DOS, etc.) Most of them (Compaq, etc.) called
>that version 1.25 Note that the part after the PERIOD was stored
>internally as twenty five.

   The (original) Sanyo disks that I have say "MS(tm)-DOS V. 1.25 #1.0".
Even though they called it MS-DOS it was VERY modified for the Sanyo.

   FWIW,
   Joe
Received on Thu Jun 17 1999 - 15:20:12 BST