> On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 04:03:04 PM PDT, Bill Johnson wrote: > A year later, fledgling company Microsoft purchased exclusive rights to sell > QDOS, renamed MS- > DOS, to IBM for their newly developed IBM-PC.
IBM signed their contract with Microsoft in 1980 which happens to be 7 months before Microsoft bought QDOS. Rumor has it that IBM told Microsoft to buy it. There was no renaming MS-DOS. My understanding is that Microsoft began immediate sales of the product, but IBM delayed for a couple of years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
