Arne,
>>>Bill Gates rewrote CP/M for a 16 bit processors and called is DOS. Then the masterworkers at MS cobbled together a GUI on top of that 16-bit CP/M and called it Windows.
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>>Actually, Microsoft *bought* DOS from, I believe, Seattle Computing. -- L
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>Yeah: Bill Gates bought DOS from Tim Paterson who owned Seattle Computer Products for $50,000. Paterson wrote DOS in six weeks using a manual for Gary Kildall's CP/M os (Digital Research) as a guide. Interestingly enough, IBM had first approached Kildall and offered the deal for the OS for the PC to him (CP/M was pretty much the defacto standard micro O/S at the time) but he refused to sign a non-disclosure with IBM! Bet he's still kicking himself to this day for that little boner. Wonder if he's bitter...?
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>-Arne
I doubt it. Gary died several years ago.
Here's a link to a bio:
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/kildall.html
Best,
DD
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