MS-DOS Paternity Dispute Goes to Court

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday March 3, 2005 @11:53AM from the dos-padres dept.

theodp writes "Might be more interesting as a Who's-My-Baby's-Daddy? segment on Maury, but a Court has been asked to decide the parentage of MS-DOS. Tim Paterson, whose operating system 86-DOS (aka QDOS) was sold to Microsoft in 1980, is suing author Harold Evans and Time Warner for defamation. In his book They Made America, Evans devoted a chapter to the late, great Gary Kildall, founder of Digital Research, describing Paterson's software as a 'rip-off' and 'a slapdash clone' of Kildall's CP/M."

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Confused by k96822 · 2005-03-03 11:54 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm... I'm confused... somebody wants to admit they created MS-DOS?
1. Re:Confused by osewa77 · 2005-03-03 11:57 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'm... I'm confused... somebody wants to admit they created MS-DOS?
  This is called Masochism :-P