Microsoft Windows 1.01 Turns 27 Years Old

[chewy1963]

[citation][nom]Prescott_666[/nom]I'm working from memory, and it has been a long time, but Microsoft bought DOS from a micro computer maker in Seattle. I don't remember their name but "Seattle" was in it. The computer that they built was based on a Texas Instruments microprocessor named something like the TMS 9900. And the TMS 9900 had the same instruction set as the Texas Instruments 990 mini computer. It was a 16 bit instruction set. It turns out that the Seattle computer company had just taken CPM (Control Program for Microcomputers) from Digital Research which was an 8 bit operating system, and adapted it to their 16 bit microcomputer.So anyway Microsoft DOS 1.0 (I'm not sure about 1.01) had the Digital Research copyright information still in it.[/citation]


There is so much wrong with this one:

The company in question is 'Seattle Computer Products' and the OS Microsoft bought from them was written by Tim Paterson who worked for them.

The OS was originally known as 'Q-DOS' (for quick and dirty dos) and was written for SCP's 'Gazelle' which was an 8086/8088 based computer (NOT a TI CPU).

While Q-DOS looked somewhat like CP/M, it was not a copy of it. It was independently written by Mr. Paterson. Digital Research (Makers of CP/M) came out with CP/M-86 after SCP had written Q-DOS and the older CP/M was written for the 8 bit CPU's based on the 8080 (8085, Z80 and others).

 

[jackt]

Shit 27 yrs old and is about to die already 🙁

 

[agnickolov]

Windows versions 1.0 through 3.x were never an OS - they were OS GUI shells. The first real Windows OS ever is Windows NT 3.1 released in 1993. The first consumer Windows OS is Windows 95.