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canucker2016last Friday at 8:09 PM1 replyview on HN

MS still had to make modifications to Tim Patterson's 86-DOS before it shipped as PC-DOS 1.0 - source: Paul Allen's Idea Man autobiography.


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rbanffyyesterday at 12:47 PM

Of course - the PC didn't exist when SCP made 86-DOS. The same way as with CP/M, the hardware interface had to be written.