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I do, but they made it popular. I'd much rather CP/M had won, not some quick and dirty clone, but that's besides the point.

The “DOS for the 2020s” being anti-Microsoft and Apple makes no sense to me. Also, DOS was the mainstream, not some retro-cyberpunk thing. Again, makes no sense at all to me.

Looks like it was, though, unless you mean the "jointly developed by Microsoft and IBM" bit.

Edit: to clarify, when people say "DOS", 99.999% of the time they mean MS-DOS, not the generic "disk operating system", which is a category and wasn't developed by anyone in particular.

86-DOS was purchased by Microsoft and renamed MS-DOS.

Huh, Wikipedia buries that lede in the "history" section, thanks.

Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, including a Microsoft PR intern.

Whoever wrote ProDOS that they purchased?