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To: generally

Actually Gates didn’t come up with MS-DOS. He stole it. It used to be called CP/M if I’m not mistaken.

-SB

1,549 posted on 03/31/2019 4:08:05 PM PDT by Snowybear

To: Snowybear

Actually Gates didn’t come up with MS-DOS. He stole it.

IIRC, he purchased the code and rights for aprox. $50K.

1,567 posted on 03/31/2019 4:49:36 PM PDT by amorphous

To: Snowybear

Exactly.

(That’s why I said “Or so the official story goes.”)

1,573 posted on 03/31/2019 5:18:26 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)

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