From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net   
      
   On 7/19/24 05:43, Paul Edwards wrote:   
   > Sure - but why not make it available anyway? What's the barrier   
   > to someone doing that? No-one is interested? Too much work?   
      
   I believe you answered your own question.   
      
   > It didn't need to be Microsoft personally.   
      
   Assuming the MS in MS-DOS stands for Microsoft, yes, it does need to be   
   Microsoft.   
      
   If you just want DOS on a mainframe, IBM did that.   
      
   Link - DOS/360 and successors - Wikipedia   
     - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/360_and_successors   
      
      
      
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