From: Fred Cisin
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 9:47 AM
On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Kip Koon wrote:
> So I went on a reading spree and found out that
CP/M was written by Gary
> Kildall well before MS-DOS was supposedly by Bill Gates! It's a long
> history that I obviously don't need to go into here since there is so much
> about it on the Internet.
No, but you should learn it.
LOTS more details are readily available about every portion of this
over-simplified shortened history.
[snip]
Bill Gates went down the street to SCP, and negotiated
a deal
to be able to sell licenses to Q-DOS/86-DOS/SB-86 to an unnamed client.
Not Bill Gates, Paul Allen, as detailed in his autobiography _Idea Man_.
Just for the record.
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
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