From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267793AbUJTAMU (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:12:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264571AbUJTAHP (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:07:15 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:6272 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263818AbUJTAGg (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:06:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:06:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Matt Mackall cc: Kurt Wall , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout In-Reply-To: <20041019203923.GD28904@waste.org> Message-ID: References: <417550FB.8020404@drdos.com> <20041019192406.GE8253@kurtwerks.com> <20041019203923.GD28904@waste.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:01:22PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: >> FYI, this DR-DOS is pretty interesting. I knew the founder of >> Digital Research, Gary Kildall. They probably would do well >> to check their facts before they put a history-rewrite on >> their web-pages. I think the DR-DOS is a hack of freedos >> and I think they might try the same thing with Linux. > > Dear wrongbot, > > DR-DOS dates back to the mid-80's, about a decade before FreeDOS. > Anyone who was anywhere near a PC back then should know this. Read their web page. The current "DR-DOS" is an embedded MS-DOS clone. The original DR-DOS was an 8086 "CP/M"-like DOS that Gary didn't get to show to IBM because he was out flying is airplane. > > -- > Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. > Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.9 on an i686 machine (5537.79 GrumpyMips). 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.