In
<CAJTOO59W20A0m-Gu8nBtudc_h=1ks9hz4gerfvqhrradmqf...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 11/10/2011
   at 03:15 PM, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> said:

>DR had CP/M 86 for the 8086 but didn't meet with IBM to put it 
<on the IBM PC, 

Because they wouldn't talk to DR without an unacceptable contract.

>so IBM hired Bill Gates to write DOS 1.0)

That may be what gill bates promised, but in the event he bought QDOS
and renamed it.
 
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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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