On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:56:26 +0100 Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 at 19:45, Deposite Pirate > <dpir...@metalpunks.info> wrote: > > > > It's not up to Microsoft to release MS/PC-DOS > 2.x. IBM did the > > bulk of the work on "MS" DOS for a while after 2.x and they would > > have to have IBM's permission to even think about releasing it. > > With the exception of the versions released _after_ MS stopped > developing, offering or selling DOS as a standalone product (i.e. PC > DOS 6.3, 7.0, 2000 and 7.1) then the *only* version of MS-DOS mainly > developed by IBM was MS-DOS 4.0x. > > If you know differently, please share some evidence, because I'd > really like to know. > https://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-3-3/ "A much less obvious but no less significant change was that unlike all previous versions, DOS 3.3 development was done solely at IBM. Microsoft was busy working on OS/2 (not yet under that name) and the OS/2 development team included many core DOS developers, such as Mark Zbikowski." -- _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
