Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000717172512.00e3ee78@newt>
X-Sender: mike AT newt
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32)
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:25:12 -0700
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
From: Mike Sensney <msensney AT owt DOT com>
Subject: Re: Hi !
In-Reply-To: <B0000269647@mail.cisnet.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com
X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com
X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com
Precedence: bulk

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.