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From: mike@relgyro.stanford.edu (Mike Macgirvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM and Apple Operating Systems
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Date: 1 Nov 89 20:36:26 GMT
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In article <213400065@s.cs.uiuc.edu> pathak@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>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.
>
	As I recall, (this is fuzzy, it's been a while...) it was
Seattle Computer Systems (or Seattle {something}), and was basically
a homebrew CP/M-86. Bill Gates bought it, hacked on it a bit, and the rest
is history. I still don't know how he got away with not paying royalties to
DRI for the pieces that were based on CP/M code....I think the claim is that
it was a total rewrite, but some of us have our doubts.

>Heeren Pathak
>pathak@cs.uiuc.edu

mike

>
>Standard Disclaimers apply

likewise



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