Wasn't it QDOS (Quick & Dirty Operating System) that bill bought?

Jamie.


-----Original Message-----
From: Clyde Smith-Stubbs <clyde@HTSOFT.COM>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Saturday, June 12, 1999 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] DOS History (was (still is?):: destructive virus)


>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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