Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: nyu notesfiles V1.1 4/1/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!tsc2597 From: tsc2597@acf4.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: IBM's new PC operating system Message-ID: <12400007@acf4.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 23:00:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.12400007 Posted: Wed Jun 20 23:00:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jun-84 04:03:49 EDT Organization: New York University Lines: 10 Nf-ID: #N:acf4:12400007:000:581 Nf-From: acf4!tsc2597 Jun 20 23:00:00 1984 An old colleague working for a large software consulting firm in New York City has reported seeing a new IBM PC operating system written by IBM on beta test. This new operating system claims compatibility with MS-DOS but was written completely independently of Microsoft. It read PC disks but did not seem to be able to run any of the compilers he had. He believes that IBM plans to distribute the operating system free with IBM PC's thus killing PC DOS. Anyone else out in net-land know about this ? Sam Chin !cmcl2!acf4!tsc2597