Subj : Re: BBSing on CP/M
To   : acn
From : Ron Lauzon
Date : Tue Sep 21 2021 08:39:46

-=> acn wrote to Otto Reverse <=-

 ac> The history of DR DOS is more or less like this:
 ac> - First, it came from Digital Research (DRI), up to version 6.0
 ac> - Then, Novell bought DRI and continued selling DR DOS 6
 ac> - The next version was Novell DOS 7
 ac> - Then, Novell sold everything DRI to Caldera

Novell had a tendancy of buying up products only to sell them off (or kill them
off) later.

Didn't Novell buy up the Borland stuff and try to make an Office package out of
them?  DOS-era, so a little off topic.

 ac> - Caldera brought Caldera OpenDOS 7.01, which was free for home users
 ac> - Then, Caldera offered Caldera DR-DOS 7.02 and 7.03
 ac> - Afterwards, DR DOS came to "Caldera Thin Clients", which became
 ac> "Lineo", then to Canopy Group, then to DeviceLogics - which became
 ac> DRDOS, Inc.
 ac> - DR-DOS 8 came out in 2004, 8.1 in 2005; both disappeared because of
 ac> copyright problems (stolen programs from FreeDOS)

I don't know why, but my memories of Caldera were always of a slimy company.
No evidence.  It was just a feeling I always had.


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