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aabajian wrote 5 hours 26 min ago:
The last line is the most interesting, "In October 1980, Microsoft's
Paul Allen contacted Seattle Computer Products and expressed interest
in reselling 86-DOS. The first version of 86-DOS licensed to Microsoft
was 0.3. In July 1981, just a month before IBM PC was announced, 86-DOS
was sold to Microsoft and renamed to MS-DOS."
IBM reached out to Microsoft sometime in 1980 about an operating
system, so SCP would've had at least 8 months to look into why
Microsoft wanted their DOS before selling it entirely to them.
Did Microsoft resell 86-DOS to anybody before changing the name to
MS-DOS? Did SCP make any effort find out why Microsoft wanted their
DOS?
slipheen wrote 2 hours 27 min ago:
It has been reported that IBM made a deal with Microsoft in part
because the chairman of IBM was friends with Bill Gatesâs mother.
[1] It is likely that no other company couldâve gotten the same
deal.
URI [1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/how-bill-gates-mother-influe...
tonyedgecombe wrote 4 hours 56 min ago:
> Did SCP make any effort find out why Microsoft wanted their DOS?
We know that if Bill Gates comes calling you should be suspicious. It
wasnât such common knowledge back then.
nsxwolf wrote 5 hours 28 min ago:
I donât remember anyone saying or writing âeightersâ and
âsixersâ back then.
cardiffspaceman wrote 4 min ago:
I read this notion a while ago, perhaps in IEEE Spectrum or
something. I didnât use the terms very much because I didnât hear
them.
rbanffy wrote 5 hours 12 min ago:
Me neither. Could be something local. We didn't have many magazines
or BBSs to unify informal language.
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