Mail Archives: opendos/2000/07/17/23:51:15
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:25:12 -0700 Mike Sensney <msensney AT owt DOT com>
writes:
> At 07:29 PM 07/17/2000 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> >On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:12:39 +0100, Ben A L Jemmett wrote:
> >
> >>> Even CP/M 86, Kildall's alternative for the original IBM-PC,
> was
> >>> released *after* M$'s PC-DOS
> >
> >> It was written at the same time, but was in testing for longer ->
> fewer
> >> bugs. It was just a port of CP/M-80 though, so technically the
> system was
> >> around for more than half a decade before MS-DOS.
> >
> > Precisely right.
> >After-all, where do think Bill Gates *stole* the idea and SRC code
> which
> >later became M$-DOS. :-)
>
> I thought he bought it from Seattle Computer Products.
Exactly right, Mike. The
ideas behind MS-DOS may be
pure CP/M (itself not
exactly a conceptual
original), but the notion
of M$ stealing DRI source
is pure rumor. M$ steals,
but has always found
*legal* ways to do it --
until recently, that is.
:-)
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