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   brings back hazy memories

   

   nonuser, Mar 2nd, 2005 @ 4:41pm

   
   

   of program segment prefixes and file control blocks (which seemed rather pointless in DOS), part of the legacy of CP/M to QDOS and thence to MS-DOS and Win 3.x.

   The baby faced kid fleeced Paterson, then turned around and fleeced the suits at Entry Systems Division. Maybe this is Paterson's outlet for delayed outrage. Where's his pot of gold?

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   DOS Creator Sues Over Book Chapter

   

   Brian Weaver, Mar 2nd, 2005 @ 5:07pm

   
   

   I doubt that if someone said something that was a known falsehood that could be established by a little research about you--such as your propensity to eat small kittens and puppies,raw, treated it as the gospel truth and broadcast it via various media you would be so laid back about it all. Especially if you were a passionate cat and dog owner, and ran a business catering to such owners. But since this is about someone else's life it's not ok to sue?

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   Re: DOS Creator Sues Over Book Chapter

   

   Mike (profile), Mar 2nd, 2005 @ 5:16pm

   
   

   Um. First off, that's a dreadful analogy. No one said Paterson was eating small kittens and puppies. Just that he was building off of CP/M's ideas -- which isn't anything horrible. And it happened 25 years ago.
   
   If someone said something false about what I did 25 years ago that was stupid, but which was mostly meaningless and certainly wouldn't impact anything else I did, why would I sue? In fact, by suing, I'd only be bringing much more attention to the issue.
   
   Do you really think that this book would stop Patterson from getting work or anything like that if he wanted to? I highly doubt it. This isn't a character assassination. This is just someone's opinion that QDOS basically took the ideas of CP/M -- something that many people think is pretty true.

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   of course CP/M

   

   DV Henkel-Wallace, Mar 2nd, 2005 @ 8:25pm

   
   

   Of course CP/M was quite familiar to me (and many other people) when first used it inherited / was inspired by various features of DEC's minicomputer and microcomputer operating systems like RSTS, RSX-11 and the like. E.g. PIP.
   
   Sounds like Evans' characterisation of DOS is largely correct ("shoddy rip-off" is probably too far) but the included (from the article) quote about Kildall having "invented the key language" or words to that effect seems way over the top too.

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   Re: DOS Creator Sues Over Book Chapter

   

   Tim, Mar 2nd, 2005 @ 10:06pm

   
   

   Remember, 25 years ago Mike was barely out of diapers :-).

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   Nigel Pond, Mar 3rd, 2005 @ 8:42am

   
   

   Why sue? It's called defamation.

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   Anonymous Coward, Mar 3rd, 2005 @ 4:52pm

   
   

   CALL 5
   

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