Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Kinda.. MSDOS as in Dos 1 to 6, came from a core program written by a team > of SW developers in Seattle..... Gates sold the job to IBM, then bought > the rights to the source code from these SW guys... as I remember it, the > cost was $50K, No residuals. Frank, I believe MS was sued by the "guys" that wrote DOS in the first place, and got more money... AND...as the story goes...Gates LIED to IBM telling them he already had an OS...when he didn't... Austin - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html