On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Keith Kern wrote:
> I heard that Gates stole dos from IBM when he was working for them. Then he
> modified it a little and put it out on the market at MS-DOS, instead of IBM's
> PC-DOS. Then he just kept modifing it and then put a gui interface with it,
> Windows 2.0.
IBM first approached Gary Killdahl of Digital Research (he wrote CP/M) to
license CP/M for their new, smart terminals (a.k.a. PCs). But, Gary stood
them up at the scheduled meeting because he preferred to be flying his
plane. IBM was rather pissed off at this. Gates, as Microsoft, had either
purchased or licensed Seattle Computer Products DOS 1.0. They and IBM struck
a deal because they could actually meet and talk about it. All else is
history. And if Gary had been a sharper businessman, PCs would have been
running CP/M rather than DOS.
Rich
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