On Aug 14, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Michael Palij wrote:

> NOTE:  I love it that at the end the article calls MS-DOS a know-off
> of the CP/M operating system.

Bill Gates has pretty well acknowledged the hack.
It was the start of a long career of repackaging (and getting rich on) other 
people's bright ideas.
Granted, he did have to be at least a competent programmer to transform an open 
software package for hackers into something salable to consumers.

>  Maybe I'll dig out my old KayPro 4
> out of storage and fire up Wordstar and SuperCalc and connect
> up somewhere with Mite and the 300 baud modem. ;-)

Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
[email protected]




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