begin  quoting Tracy R Reed as of Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:27:54PM +0700:
[snip]
> DR-DOS was a complete failure in the marketplace because every system
> came with MS-DOS pre-installed which was good enough. My understanding

Not quite. DRDOS was, IIRC, *gaining* market-share over MSDOS. Thus the
MSWindows test-and-bogus-error-message... it gave the impression that
DRDOS was unstable, so people stopped buying DRDOS and just lived with
MSDOS.

> is that MS bought DOS from Seattle Computer Products. Did they then
> steal CP/M code and integrate it with the code they got from SCP or was
> it SCP who stole the CP/M code?
 
SCP *apparently* decompiled CP/M and ported it.

-Stewart "That's the version of the story that I was told" Stremler

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