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From: pathak@s.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM and Apple Operating Systems
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Date: 1 Nov 89 17:34:56 GMT
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Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!pathak    Oct 31 13:42:00 1989



I believe that Microsoft did not actually develop the orginal version
of MS-DOS.  Bill Gates contracted with IBM to develop DOS for them and
he bought MS-DOS from someone else and gave it to IBM.

Heeren Pathak
pathak@cs.uiuc.edu

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