From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 25 12:20:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA02785 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:20:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA02775 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 2054 on Mon, 25 Aug 1997 19:20:45 GMT; id TAA02054 efrom: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl; eto: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: (from peter@localhost) by grendel.IAEhv.nl (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA00456; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:16:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970825211642.11606@grendel.IAEhv.nl> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:16:42 +0200 From: Peter Korsten To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Since the MicroSloth(tm) jokes have been flowing... References: <199708251617.MAA01380@i4got.lakewood.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.67e In-Reply-To: <199708251617.MAA01380@i4got.lakewood.com>; from Bill Pechter on Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 12:17:31PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bill Pechter shared with us: > > > > But MS didn't write DOS. It was written by Tim Patterson at > > Seattle Computer Products and MS bought it for $50,000. > > Probably the best buy in computing. MS is worth Billions due to > that one deal. > > Amazing. A major historical event. Uh, MS may have become big with DOS, they only became huge with Windows 3.0. They make mice, joysticks, games, compilers, office packages, server products, a lot of gimmicks to tie all of it together, but the bulk is still coming from Windows being shipped with about every PC in the world. - Peter