Not really a rip off. The founder of DR was something of an Idealist and wasn't against the use of his structures to create a code compatible version of CPM86. Microsoft did however reverse engineer some of CPM86 to fix a few bugs in DOS.
At 07:30 AM 1/12/2003 +1100, you wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > IIRC the guy that "invented" Dos got a minimal flat fee from Gates and never saw any other profit. Access is a rip-off of Paradox; Excel is a rip-off of Lotus; the list goes on and on. > Actually, the guy that got paid for Dos (Seattle Computer) ripped it off from Digital Research! Bob
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