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> “In fact it is known that DOS 2.0 could not be built on PCs at all, and was built on DEC mainframes.”

Nitpick, but DEC never made a mainframe. Their products like the PDP-11 were considered minicomputers (even though the CPU was the size of a fridge) to distinguish them from IBM’s mainframes and medium sized computers.

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