April 16, 2021 1:36 PM, "Liam Proven" <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have looked into this in considerable depth and that article you > cite is based on a misunderstanding of the claims. > > Nobody is saying that Paterson or SCP _copied code_ from CP/M into > QDOS. That is not the claim here, so that oft-cited article wastes a > lot of effort debunking the wrong claim based on misunderstanding the > allegation. > > The claim is that Paterson re-implemented, from scratch, cleanly and > with his own code, the _design_ of CP/M.
It's pretty obvious it was highly inspired by the design of CP/M. Also by the design of UNIX, either through CP/M (flat files) or later when Microsoft (who's first OS product was Xenix) added pipes and other original UNIX ideas. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
