On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 06:12:39AM -0700, Nick Taylor wrote:
> Bill Gates purchased CPM-86 from Seattle Software for $50K ... and

No, what Bill purchased was not CP/M-86, which was a DRI product.

> this became the original MS-DOS 1.0.  CPM-86 was just a port of

And whatever Seattle Software's OS was called, it did not immediately
become MS-DOS, but actually PC-DOS 1.0. MS-DOS appeared slightly later,
apparently because IBM either didn't want or didn't get exclusivity.


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