Actually, what Gates bought was a technical reference clone of CPM (by Digital Research) modified to run on a 16 bit 8080 chip. Seattle Computing? Dont' remember the company, and I believe the guy who did the (illegal) clone is now dead. Flat-out copyright infringement that the Reagan administration refused to do anything about, and the founder of Digital Research wasn't interested in computer stuff at the time.
That is why when DR released DR-DOS with a copyright date of 1976 in the early 90's Billy couldn't sue them -- it was, after all, their software. Ran like a scalded rabbit and was vastly more stable, but Windows ate it. IBM management wasn't interested in the PC, just mainframes and terminals running VMS or something similar -- this was also the about the time they got out of hardware and drifted off into the has-been company they are today. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
