[rescue] AT&T 3b1 Starlan software

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:

> > That's IBM arrogance at work. They called their operating system OS,
> > for Operating System, their disk operating system DOS, and later their
> > personal computer PC. As if there were no others.
>
> Nope, that is IBM piss poor branding department. and DOS was an earlier
> OS that was actually bought by M$... IBM never branded that product
> except for the IBM-DOS or PC-DOS, but that was because they had to keep
> up with MS-DOS branding. :)

When IBM says DOS, they don't mean PC-DOS or MS-DOS.  They mean DOS as in
DOS/VSE.  The mainframe operating system.

Peace...  Sridhar