"Steve Wertz" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:48:18 GMT, "Paul M. Cook©®"
> > wrote:
>
> >"Steve Wertz" > wrote in message
>
> >> Since when has MS tried to be complaint or emulate any other OS?
> >> I think the fact that they didn't name hosts as hosts.txt (or
> >> hosts.ini) was just an oversight.
> >
> >Snce day 1, dude. MS-DOS was originally a ported version of CPM to the
8080
> >processor which Gates and Allen bought for 50 grand. The Windows
interface
> >and mouse functionality was ripped off from Apple who ripped it off from
> >Xerox.
>
> So they took a few ideas and some code from other OS's. That's
> how most products are born and evolved [stolen] nowdays. MS-DOS
> (PC-DOS) was nothing like CP/M though. More like Unix, just
> shitier.
>
> >M$ has never had an original idea that I am aware of unless you
> >include OEM licensing which is the core of their power.
>
> So you're saying that all the functions of Windows have been
> ripped off from other OS's - including the idea of associating
> file extensions with certain programs? That's pretty far-fetched.


Not hardly. It's been done on every OS I've ever worked on including VMS,
NOS, RSTS, KRONOS and a slew of others. The idea predated M$ by years.

Paul