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To: Kevmo

Yep....99% of freepers have the same medical degree as Gates.

IIRC, my MBA w/4.0 GPA, certainly exceeds any academic achievement he attained.

Finally, didn’t Gates steal DOS from a prototype design from Xerox he saw while visiting IBM?


64 posted on 02/18/2022 8:57:58 AM PST by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: newfreep

Nahh, Gates licensed DOS.

Gates shared plenty of ideas with IBM and even told them he’d write an operating system for them. Instead of writing one, Gates reached out to Paterson and purchased 86-DOS from him, allegedly for $50,000. Microsoft turned it into Microsoft Disk Operating System, or MS-DOS, which they introduced on this day in 1981.Jul 27, 2011

A Quick Look At The 30-Year History Of MS DOS - Business Insider...
https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-dos-2011-7#ibm-approached-a-young-bill-gates-for-help-3


65 posted on 02/18/2022 9:01:29 AM PST by Kevmo (I’m immunue from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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