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by smashing 5451 days ago
86-DOS, aka Quick and Dirty Disk Operating System, which was sold to MicroSoft famously, was designed to duplicate C/PM's operating system API's. As the story goes, all the money was in the hardware as software so easy to copy. Look up the history of FCopy on the C64 to see just how prevalent it was on the much higher volume platform of the day, Commodore.
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Cool! Another reason why web/tech startups should focus on doing one thing really well.