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From: lotto@talcott.UUCP (Jerry Lotto)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: What if IBM...(more 8086 v. 68k)
Message-ID: <548@talcott.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 08:21:02 EST
Article-I.D.: talcott.548
Posted: Thu Dec 12 08:21:02 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Dec-85 06:39:32 EST
References: <12200023@orstcs.UUCP>
Organization: Harvard Univ. Chem. Dept.
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Summary: Motivation

In article <12200023@orstcs.UUCP>, richardt@orstcs.UUCP (richardt) writes:
> 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"

What ever happened to Seattle computer? I was not aware that Microsoft wrote
MS-DOS on a request from IBM or any other company.
-- 

Gerald Lotto - Harvard Chemistry Dept.

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