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Re: Win95 - Response/ Flame
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Steve Dirickson b894 westwins <[log in to unmask]>
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Steve Dirickson b894 westwins <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 15 Sep 1995 13:16:00 P
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<<>This worship of Bill Gates and MS is just short of cultish.  Name one
MS product, other than DOS, that led rather than followed.
 
Actually, didn't DOS just copy CP/M?>>
 
MS-DOS 1.0 was born when Gates bought a product called 86 DOS from
Seattle Computer. 86 DOS was essentially a machine-converted x86 version
of CP/M 2.2, with modifications for the x86 architecture.
 
Steve Dirickson         WestWin Consulting
(360) 598-6111  [log in to unmask]

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