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From: stubbs@ncr-sd.UUCP (Jan Stubbs)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: What if IBM...(more 8086 v. 68k)
Message-ID: <362@ncr-sd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 14:31:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 12 14:31:43 1985
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Summary: Where did MSDOS come from?

>for CP/M, IBM went and talked to DRI.  DRI refused to give them exclusive
>rights to name and marketing, along the lines which PC-DOS now has.  IBM
>went back to MicroSoft and said "Write us an OS that can use CP/M calls and
>looks like CP/M-86."  Voila, MS-DOS is born.  Note that the CP/M "Call 5"
>convention is *still* supported in MS/PC-DOS.
>

Voila, Microsoft went to Seattle Microsystems (I may have the name wrong but the location is right) who already had their own OS running on an 8086, and 
bought the beginnings of PC/MS-DOS.

Jan Stubbs ...sdcsvax!ncr-sd!stubbs

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