Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
> Atari's TOS wasn't based on MS-DOS either, and it used the exact
> same filesystem.
Their disk format was definitely and deliberately intended to be an exact
replication of the documented MS-DOS disk format.
I doubt that anything other than the disk format resembles any part of
MS-DOS.
> Perhaps I need to be more clear here -- this guy really thought
> that somewhere underneath the Mac GUI, there was a copy of MS-DOS
> on every Macintosh. He had nothing to offer as proof, except that
> no computer could possibly function without it. (I'm really
> serious here...)
Did he also think that the 68000 was a copy of the 8086?
Received on Thu Apr 25 2002 - 22:03:07 BST
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