Who invented DOS?

[evan]

I recall reading once that Tim said something like "if I knew DOS would be used
for so long, I would have made it much better."

--- willisjo at zianet.com wrote:
> vrs writes: 
> 
> >> At 09:26 AM 3/4/2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
> >> >You could make a case that CP/M was modeled after Unix, but we won't go
> > there :-)
> >>
> >> Never!  RT-11, maybe.
> > 
> > I always thought both were modeled after OS/8 :-).  (Which was, in turn, a
> > souped up DMS.) 
> > 
> >     Vince 
> > 
> 
> It was originally written by Tim Patterson of Seattle Computer Products, as 
> 86-QDOS (Quick and Dirty OS). The initial purchase by Microsoft was for 
> $15,000 IIRC, but full rights to the OS were purchased later for a larger 
> sum. Patterson was originally planning on including multitasking, but did 
> not due to time constraints. The OS gained tree-structured directories and 
> I/O redirection/pipes (< > >> |) in 2.0 (inspired by UNIX), and a major 
> rewrite for 5.0 (I believe this rewrite was largely the work of Charles 
> Simonyi, but could not be sure). 
> 
> Tim Patterson was hired by Microsoft for a period of time. 
> 
> 
> John 
> 
> John P. Willis
> Coherent Logic Development 
> 
> 

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