[Elecraft] Computers in the Stone Age

[Kevin Stover]

Neither Gates or Allen had bupkus to do with producing PC-DOS.
They bought it from Seattle Computer Products in 1981 and modified it to 
suit IBM.
They were forced to purchase something off the shelf because they were 
way behind producing their own.
The name PC-DOS came from IBM who licensed "MS-DOS".

Another little factoid. If Gary Kildall of Digital Research had been 
able to come to an agreement with IBM when they came calling (before 
going to MS), we'd have run CP/M on the first IBM PC's.

People who know say a lot of the internals of MS-DOS look an awful lot 
like CP/M.

Hmmmm.


-- 
R. Kevin Stover
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