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To: CodeToad

Of course Killdal had the right to sell his own software. But good effort at splitting hairs, there. That doesn’t change the fact of where what became PC DOS came from. Sure, Gates and Allen became very wealthy off of that deal. Good for them. But don’t go trying to pass off Gates as being such a great technical innovator with DOS when someone else wrote it and what he sold to IBM was a rip off of CP/M.


42 posted on 10/30/2013 4:40:38 AM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: Orangedog

MS made significant changes to DOS before they gave it to IBM. They worked day and night for months to get it ready. Even then, they gave Killdal the right to the result. Killdal simply did nothing with it.


43 posted on 10/30/2013 10:28:58 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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