Re: [NTLK] [OT] It's MS-DOS 6.22 day!

From: Dennis B. Swaney <romad_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue Jun 23 2009 - 21:57:26 EDT

Mike Rodgers wrote:
> I also know that to create DOS, Microsoft had to borrow from CPM and Unix.

Ah, Micro$oft didn't "create" DOS; they virtually stole it from the
developer by their routine tactic of promising a bunch of money and then
only paying a pittance.

IBM originally wanted to use CP/M, but when that fell through they went
to M$. M$ agreed to provide IBM with the M$ product; the only problem is
that they DIDN'T have a viable OS! So they glommed on the the OS that
they then re-packaged as MS-DOS.

Frankly, IMO, M$ hasn't created anything; just copied other software
vendors ideas and modified them.

-- 
Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney
"Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is 
... oh, never mind."
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