Re: Upgrading to Vista

Desmond wrote:

One thing I forgot to mention but you would have to be 40 plus to know
this. MSDOS also was not writen by microsoft. That was an outside
company. Anyone remember there name?

Seattle Computer Products and the product was QDOS.

Hey, and I'm only 37.... does that make me an uber-geek? :)
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