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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