From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>,
Jocelyn Mayer <jma@netgem.com>
Cc: <landley@webofficenow.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:15:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0106261815470G.01008@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106260804540.2823-100000@twin.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106260804540.2823-100000@twin.uoregon.edu>
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 17:15, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jocelyn Mayer wrote:
>
> you get DR-DOS = Digital Research DOS, then you get Novell DOS, then
> you get Caldera OpenDOS, currently opendos is owned by lineo
Yes, and the source actually was open for a short time when Caldera had it,
then it snapped back shut like a clam. I wanted to use DrDos for an
industrial project because of less paranoid licensing than MS-Dos, but after
being rebuffed in no uncertain terms when I offered to fix a bug I ran away
shuddering and jumped on the Linux cluetrain.
> > I think I remember that DR-DOS was the name that Caldera
> > gave to the Digital Research OS, previously known as GEMDOS,
--
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-26 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-26 3:21 Microsoft and Xenix Jocelyn Mayer
2001-06-26 15:15 ` Joel Jaeggli
2001-06-26 16:15 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2001-06-26 16:42 ` Rob Landley
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-25 17:29 Wayne.Brown
2001-06-25 2:51 Wayne.Brown
2001-06-24 23:21 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-25 17:14 ` asmith
2001-06-25 14:54 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-24 2:59 Wayne.Brown
2001-06-24 2:41 Wayne.Brown
2001-06-24 3:07 ` Mike Castle
2001-06-24 14:44 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-25 15:13 ` Joel Jaeggli
2001-06-25 14:17 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-25 19:57 ` Erik Mouw
2001-06-27 2:10 ` Steve Underwood
2001-06-25 19:30 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-06-25 20:19 ` asmith
2001-06-24 14:32 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-22 22:41 Alan Chandler
2001-06-23 14:07 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-24 0:13 ` Michael Alan Dorman
2001-06-24 14:18 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-25 1:45 ` Jeff Dike
2001-06-24 20:51 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-24 0:49 ` John Adams
2001-06-24 14:25 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-24 2:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-24 10:36 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-24 22:41 ` Chris Meadors
2001-06-25 0:55 ` William T Wilson
2001-06-25 17:11 ` asmith
2001-06-25 18:18 ` Robert J.Dunlop
2001-06-25 3:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-02 10:04 ` Juan Quintela
2001-06-25 19:23 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-06-26 15:16 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-26 21:26 ` Michael Meissner
2001-06-27 8:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-06-27 18:07 ` Peter De Schrijver
2001-06-27 13:43 ` Peter Bergner
2001-06-28 21:11 ` Thomas Dodd
2001-06-23 17:57 ` Mike Jagdis
2001-06-23 17:11 ` Rob Landley
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