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Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley
- Subject: Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley
- From: fortran@earthlink.net (Edward Franks)
- Date: 1999/06/29
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.mac.misc
- Organization: Altopia Corp. - Usenet Access - http://www.altopia.com
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My glass typewriter shows Scott R. Ehrlich typing...
> Let's not forget some basic facts from the past:
>
> - Mac got its GUI start from Xerox PARC, because Xerox could not market
> their inventions (including the mouse)
>
> - Gates got his start from buying CP/M and modifying it into DOS for the
> consumer market
Let's not forget that Microsoft bought QDOS (quick and dirty OS)
from Seattle Computer Products which was a 16-bit clone of CP/M. :)
Oh, by the way, CP/M was already available for the consumer
market. It was *the* OS for non-Apple computers.
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