> Nope. MS-DOS was a port of CP/M to the 16 bit Intel processors by a small
> west cost company, and Microsoft purchased it. Later, Digital Research
> did their own port as well. But the Microsoft version was something like
> $50, and the Digital Research version was over $100, so most people went
> with the Microsoft version. This was when purchased with the system -
> retail price of the two versions was comparable.
And then I think, Gates managed to persuade IBM to endorse his product and
even build PCs with his 'MS DOS' on it, and from then it became the defacto
PC operating system when the PC boom started to take off in the late 80's.
Pretty shrewd move to get IBM to build PCs and use his operating system.. I
guess that's why he's the rich one. ;-)
Nowadays shipping a PC with bundled software is a standard, but at a time
when x86 wasn't a defacto architecture this was pretty new stuff.
CH
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