From: firefly@diku.dk   
      
   On Tue, 11 Sep 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Jürgen Kahrs wrote:   
      
   > 1990 that I felt C had won. The one single reason that I saw (at that   
   > time) was Microsoft choosing C and not Pascal as the language they   
   > used to re-write MS-DOS 3.x (which was implemented in 8086 assembler   
   > until then).   
      
   I thought it was _IBM's_ decision to rewrite DOS in C.  The result was   
   PC-DOS 4.0 with a few new features (and lots of bloat), which Microsoft   
   had to scramble to copy.   
      
   -Peter   
      
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