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Win 8 Patent Lawsuit
40hz:
IIRC, Tim Paterson's OS was named QDOS, for Quick and Dirty OS.
-xtabber (November 02, 2012, 10:50 PM)
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Wow. Been a while so I may be getting confused. But IIRC, although 86-DOS was sometimes informally referred to as QDOS as in "quick & dirty" it was never marketed or officially referred to by Seattle or MSoft under that name. QDOS was used, however, as the official name of the operating system written by Tony Tebby for the Sinclair personal computer.
HA! I still have one of those, plus a copy of the book The QDOS Companion, sitting in a box somewhere. Wonder if it still works? I'd guess it probably does. ;D
f0dder:
The patents even use Microsoft's marketing term, "Tiles". I just wonder how MS missed these patents and didn't get ahead of the issue long before releasing Win8.
-mwb1100 (November 02, 2012, 03:18 AM)
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Goes way back to how MS stole code from CP/M. MS seems to have made themselves from the hard work of others throughout their lifetime....
-Tinman57 (November 02, 2012, 07:31 PM)
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Wasn't that fairly thoroughly debunked in a recent IEEE article?
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