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IBM put it together and got the DOS operating system from Bill Gates.
They didn't buy the whole DOS program and Billy Boy, decided to sell it
to compeditors too, since Big Blue didn't have an exclusive license to
use his software.
las wrote:
>
> "J. Coon" wrote:
>
> > They are the ones that came out with the PC that everyone copied and
> > got everyone on this platform. We could all be using Apples for ciying
> > out loud. Yech! the thought of it. :)
> >
>
> Jim the "PC" that IBM "invented" was a worthless piece of sh!t. All they
> did was throw together a bunch of off the shelf parts. The system did
> nothing. Along comes Bill Gates and partner.
>
> Now IBM thinks that the value of the PC in next to zero. Just a joke side
> project that they really don't even see a future in. So they don't even
> design their own operating system. They don't even buy an operating system
> (like Gates did).
>
> They license the system from Gates and his partner. They don't even get an
> exclusive right to the license. Gates turns around and starts licensing
> anyone who will pay him for "DOS".
>
> Funny thing. People start taking an interest in the "PC". Since IBM has
> no exclusive rights to the "PC", companies start putting together PCs in
> their garage. They have zero over head and can sell the PC for a fraction
> of what IBM has to sell it for.
>
> It is truly a credit to programers and electronics engineers that they have
> been able to reverse engineer the PC so that it is capable of doing all of
> the things that it can do today.
>
> And where is Big Blue today? a comfortable capitalization of 202 hundred
> mil. Microsoft? 311 hundred mil.
>
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