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>>The idea that if MS had never existed, there would be no such thing as software development and that we would all be making a living flipping burgers or whatever is ... well, interesting.
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>>Alan
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>I seem to remember developing software on CP/M machines before Microsoft came along :)

Dale;

Memories of S-100, dBase II, Ashton Tate and 8" floppies come to mind. :)

Regarding my S-100 IMSAI machine, at $795 for 64K of memory and $6000 for a 10 Meg hard disk, times have changed!

Tom

P.S. Somehow I do not miss writing drivers but at least they worked unlike some of the offerings of today.