>I heard that Gates stole dos from IBM when he was working for them. Then he
>modified it a little and put it out on the market at MS-DOS, instead of IBM's
>PC-DOS. Then he just kept modifing it and then put a gui interface with it,
>Windows 2.0.

No, he purchased CPM for a relatively small amount of money and converted it
into PC-DOS/MS-DOS.  IBM never created the OS for the PeeCee.  Gates and crew
did that.

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