Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> On 04/04/2014 05:56 PM, CVAlkan wrote:
> > Not sure if my recollections are correct, but I don't believe either DOS
> > (before 2.x) or the DOS version of Word were written by Microsoft. I
> > seem to
> > recall that both were purchased and re-branded.

DOS was bought from Seattle Computer Products and it was originally
intended to be a hardware test system, while waiting for CP/M-86, rather
than a proper OS.
> Do not remember 8 inch ones.  I remember 10 inch, and then the 5.x
> inch ones. [single sided and then double sided]

The first floppies, as invented by IBM, were 8".  There never were 10"
floppies.


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