Re: Your first A2.

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

Seattle Systems had a variant of CP/M.  They bought it from
them after they got a deal from IBM to sell a DOS.  I think
they paid only $50,000 for it.  A real bargain for Mr Bill.

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"Stephen Shaw" <xstephenx@apple2.org.za> wrote in message
news:9iosic$rg7$1@venus.itns.co.za...
> Doesn't anyone want to carry this on by telling us all about how Bill
Gates
> "wrote" MS-DOS? If I remember correctly he didn't he bought it off
somebody
> else and then renamed it...
>
> On Sun, 01 Jul 2001 17:55:41 GMT, william strutts wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > "Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
> > 3b3f24f9@news.iprimus.com.au">news:3b3f24f9@news.iprimus.com.au...
> >> pity they dropped it when the PC was designed.
> >> no backward compatability at all, not even personality :)
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >
> > Dude, the PC came out in 1981 and the Junior in 1984.  The
> > Junior should have been backward compatible but it had all
> > kinds of quirky technology which IBM thought that the Home
> > User would want.  However, it made the machine a big joke.
> > By the time you sidecarred things to death, you could have
> > bought one its bigger brothers for less.
>
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> Heisenberg may have slept here.