Tom Piwowar >>Oh, boy, here we go. >>Who exactly says that, and why? MS licensed it, which to the >>best of my knowledge isn't theft. >>(Anyway, it was Seattle Computer Products, not DR. DR's OS >>was CP/M.)
> I'm sure MS has a division assigned to rewriting history and > you have a shelf of their briefing books... > "Digital Research (Gary Kildall) was livid at the cloning of > his OS (and a cheap clone at that). Up to this point he felt <snip> > but seems to have remained bitter about this event." > http://www.mackido.com/History/History_DrDos.html > I caution anyone following this story to check the > source of the information they are reading. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Death has been proven to be 99% fatal in laboratory rats! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
