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] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=19738 or send a blank email to leave-19738-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
