POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: The License: Re: The License

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From: Ron Parker
Date: 24 Apr 2000 00:48:59
Message: <slrn8g7l5n.4b3.ron.parker@linux.parkerr.fwi.com>

On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 21:40:19 -0500, David Fontaine wrote:
>Warp wrote:
>
>>   If I remember right, the first Unix operating system was developed in
>> the 60's from a bigger OS called Multix (DOS was [reverse engineered] in 79 or
>> 80).
>
>*cough*

Cough, indeed.  DOS wasn't reverse engineered, it was written from scratch
with the intent of being backward compatible with CP/M.  It just wasn't
written by Herr Gates as he likes to claim.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.

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