Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 18:25:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Since the MicroSloth(tm) jokes have been flowing... Message-ID: <199708260025.SAA04804@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970825103752.341J-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> from "John Fieber" at Aug 25, 97 10:42:24 am
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> But MS didn't write DOS. It was written by Tim Patterson at
> Seattle Computer Products and MS bought it for $50,000.
Bzzzt! Wrong answer. MS bought two "licenses to use" for $500.00
apiece, disassembled it, changed a few strings, reassembled it,
and called this "MS-DOS 1.0". SCP later sued them and recovered
20 million or so, which certainly caused Microsoft less pain than
developing their own OS would have.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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