FAT file system now licensed by MS ? (86DOS?)

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Thu Dec 4 17:42:58 2003

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 11:56, Fred Cisin wrote:

> Patterson of Seattle Computer Products shared a booth with Microsoft at
> the West Coast Computer Faire, and was "inspired" by the use of it in
> the NEC or NCR "Microsoft Stand Alone BASIC" and used it in QDOS, which
> MICROS~1 bought, and resold (after completion and a few changes) as
> PC-DOS/MS-DOS.

OK, so I specifically recall "89DOS", and it's stapled yellow books.
Version 0.86 (duh) and 1.something. I thought it was seattle comp prod.
I installed it on some '86 machine or other in 1979? 1980? 1981?

It used patterson's one-pass assembler, faster'n'blazes, a CP/M style
jump table, and I thought a FAT-like file system. I don't think it was
the CP/M extent business but it could have been.

Anyone else recall anything abou this OS?
Received on Thu Dec 04 2003 - 17:42:58 GMT

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