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It's not really taught these days, but writing simple Disk Operating Systems isn't that hard. Any decent programmer could do it. And Dos 1.x's feature set was
by phire 10y ago
It's not really taught these days, but writing simple Disk Operating Systems isn't that hard. Any decent programmer could do it.
And Dos 1.x's feature set was so small that a single programmer should be able to reproduce the it set in well under a year of full-time work. IBM's BIOS did most of the heavy lifting anyway.
- jackhack 10y agoThe Apple ][ DOS was written in about 4 weeks by Paul Laughton. That doesn't mean it was easy, just that it was possible. (Laughton was/is an extraordinarily capable developer.) (edit: fixed name!)