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Re: Trend towards platform specific languages

My original point was that MS did *not* invent DOS. They bought it ($50k if I recall correctly) from Seattle Computing. They had to buy an operating system because they told IBM, during the development of the original PC, "Sure, we've got an operating system for you." That's not innovation, but it might, in today's environment, be construed as some sort of insider information. 

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James H H Lampert wrote:


"Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>> You left out the original sin - DOS itself.

But they bought DOS Jerry - they didn't even "invent" that <grin>.
And there's nothing wrong with DOS; my notebooks both still run DOS and only DOS, and my Linux box is a Linux/DOS dual-boot.
Nor was there ever anything wrong with Altair BASIC, nor most of its descendants (i.e., Radio Shack Level II and Disk BASIC, IBM PC-BASIC, BASICA, GW-BASIC, and the QBASICs. The Visual BASICs are another matter, however.) 

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