Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Apr 25 22:03:07 2002

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