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> I left it out on purpose, because DOS was a Microsoft platform as well. MS-DOS was a Microsoft platform, but not DOS itself: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by wolfgke 13y ago
> I left it out on purpose, because DOS was a Microsoft platform as well.
MS-DOS was a Microsoft platform, but not DOS itself:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS
Also Glide was not a Microsoft API.
- pjmlp 13y agoI just wrote DOS as I always abbreviated MS-DOS as DOS. DR-DOS actually came with the first PC I bought and it was for all effects a MS-DOS clone, hence a DOS clone, like PC-DOS from IBM and a few others on those days.
- wolfgke 13y ago> DR-DOS actually came with the first PC I bought and it was for all effects a MS-DOS clone, hence a DOS clone, like PC-DOS from IBM and a few others on those days. Under this argumentation GNU/Linux or even OS X is a UNIX clone and both should be abbreviated to UNIX (or UN*X to avoid trademark violations ;-) ). Indeed both originate from UNIX clones - but then new features were added that made them better than the original in a sense. The same happened to DR-DOS. Read DR-DOS' wikipedia article to read about features that DR-DOS added over Microsoft's original.