From: yeti@tilde.institute   
      
   "internetado"  writes:   
      
   > Had Digital Research, the company CP/M   
   > creator Gary Kildall set up to sell CP/M, accepted the deal with IBM   
   > to make CP/M the default operating system for the then newly-created   
   > IBM PC, we'd be living in a very different world today.   
      
   CP/M was reimplemented by Seattle Computer Products as "Quick and Dirty   
   Operation System"[0] and later Microsoft bought it and stripped the   
   "Quick and" and kept DOS as name.  Shouldn't that once and forever   
   explain how to read the "D" of "DOS"?  o;-)   
      
   I used CP/M-Z80 for a while and when MSDOS appeared, I avoided it for a   
   long time, but when I finally had to do some stuff on it, I immediately   
   felt kind of at home due to the similar structure of the OS function   
   calls.  That felt strange.  Maybe even a bit shady.   
      
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   0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_and_Dirty_Operating_System   
      
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