[email protected] (William Smith) writes: > Happy Birthday, IBM Personal Computer, August 12, 1981, the > announcement date for the original from IBM Boca Raton, Florida, > birthplace of PC DOS and OS/2.
there was IBM project in silicon valley to do software for the IBM/PC ... with constant checking with Boca ... and then Boca says nope ... they are making other arrangements ... and contract with a company in seattle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS and before ms-dos, there was seattle computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products before seattle computer there was cp/m, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M before cp/m, kildall worked with cp67/cms at npg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Postgraduate_School -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
