Re: Your first A2.

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.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:

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> "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 :)
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>> Mark
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> 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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