That's the story I remember. Gates has been great at acquiring other peoples projects and turning them into gold..I'm not sure he's ever actually written a line of code!
Doug W6JD -------------- Original message -------------- From: Brian Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Jun 3, 2007, at 4:54 AM, Fred (FL) wrote: > > > And Bill Gates empire was launched, and IBM got > > its first DOS contract from Gates - and IBM's PC was > > launched. > > The way I remember it, IBM decided they wanted a version of CP/M for > their new Intel 8086-based system and went to Digital Research. > Somehow the folks at DR managed to really annoy the folks from IBM. > (I heard it that Gary Kildall's wife wouldn't deal with them because > Gary was out-of-town.) So IBM turned to the small company that was > supposed to provide the BASIC interpreter for the new "PC": Microsoft. > > Bill Gates of Microsoft assured IBM that Microsoft had a replacement > for CP/M-86 even though they really didn't. (Ah, vapor-ware has been > with us for a LONG time.) Microsoft then quickly purchased the rights > to a CP/M lookalike called QDOS. That became IBM's PC-DOS which > Microsoft then renamed MS-DOS. The rest is history. > > 73 de Brian, WB6RQN > Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com > > > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: [email protected] > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
