> As I recall the story, a bastard-child division of IBM decided to produce > the PC using CPM for the disk operating system. But the folks that owned > CPM saw all those Big Blue dollar signs and got greedy.
The story is well-known. Gary Kildall (only owner of CP/M) thought the day was too good for flying and blew off the meeting. The IBM guys then went on to their next stop, in Redmond, and the rest is history. Yes, the DOS was not owned nor developed my MS, it was bought for cheap-cheap-cheap from a guy who worked at Seattle Computer Products, and pushed out the door in a hurry. Gates is a sharp businessman, not a technologist. He would have done just as well in the railroad era. -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
