To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 03:44:03 5
Subject: Re: Hi !
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From: Bruce Morgen <editor AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com



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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