[Elecraft] Spilling the HF beans .....

[w6jd at comcast.net]

That's the story I remember. Gates has been great at acquiring other peoples projects and turning them into gold..I'm not sure he's ever actually written a line of code!

Doug
W6JD

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Brian Lloyd <brian-wb6rqn at lloyd.com> 

> 
> On Jun 3, 2007, at 4:54 AM, Fred (FL) wrote: 
> 
> > And Bill Gates empire was launched, and IBM got 
> > its first DOS contract from Gates - and IBM's PC was 
> > launched. 
> 
> The way I remember it, IBM decided they wanted a version of CP/M for 
> their new Intel 8086-based system and went to Digital Research. 
> Somehow the folks at DR managed to really annoy the folks from IBM. 
> (I heard it that Gary Kildall's wife wouldn't deal with them because 
> Gary was out-of-town.) So IBM turned to the small company that was 
> supposed to provide the BASIC interpreter for the new "PC": Microsoft. 
> 
> Bill Gates of Microsoft assured IBM that Microsoft had a replacement 
> for CP/M-86 even though they really didn't. (Ah, vapor-ware has been 
> with us for a LONG time.) Microsoft then quickly purchased the rights 
> to a CP/M lookalike called QDOS. That became IBM's PC-DOS which 
> Microsoft then renamed MS-DOS. The rest is history. 
> 
> 73 de Brian, WB6RQN 
> Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com 
> 
> 
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