From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft takes on history
Date: 25 May 2002 04:19:07 -0700
Date: 2002-05-25T11:19:07+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0205250319.324e9ff8@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: acmn8f$lmd$1@bob.news.rcn.net
"Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.FrankLho@rcn.com> wrote in message news:<acmn8f$lmd$1@bob.news.rcn.net>...
> In the first years of the IBM/PC, IBM and Microsoft were indeed partners. It
> was this partnership that produced MS-DOS as the standard OS for IBM's first
> personal computer.
That's misleading. When the PC came out, it was sold without an operating
system. I remember well going into the IBM store (IBM was briefly in the
retail business) and buying a machine, and then I asked about the operating
system. I was pointed to a bin marked operating systems. I found UCSD, CPM
and MS/DOS. I bought a copy of CPM and MS/DOS, and played with both. MS/DOS
at that time was purely a microsoft product, and was not specially pushed
by IBM, although most certainly IBM had help cause it to be produced. In
practice MS/DOS won out in the market place over the other alternatives,
because for one thing it was a fraction of the price of the alternatives.
I think I still have my copy of CPM :-)
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2002-05-23 15:24 Microsoft takes on ACT Ted Dennison
2002-05-23 16:09 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-24 13:31 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-24 14:05 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-25 14:26 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-28 15:42 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-24 14:52 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-24 20:13 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-05-23 18:01 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-23 18:30 ` tmoran
2002-05-23 21:21 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-24 14:02 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-24 14:31 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-25 5:48 ` OT: " tmoran
2002-05-28 15:50 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-25 7:58 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-24 18:45 ` OT: Microsoft takes on history Frank J. Lhota
2002-05-24 19:05 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-24 19:51 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-25 8:12 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-25 10:31 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-05-25 12:16 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-25 15:40 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-25 17:08 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-06-07 22:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-05-25 20:09 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-05-24 19:57 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-05-24 20:35 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-25 0:41 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-05-28 16:14 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-29 16:18 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-29 17:37 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-29 21:32 ` Dan Andreatta
2002-05-30 6:35 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-05-30 14:12 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-31 5:38 ` XML & Ada was " Robert C. Leif
2002-05-30 13:45 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-30 15:11 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-29 20:34 ` John Doe
2002-05-24 20:54 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-05-24 20:26 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-28 16:20 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-24 19:34 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-24 20:29 ` OT: " David Marceau
2002-05-24 20:42 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-25 0:52 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-05-25 11:19 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2002-05-25 11:50 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-05-25 14:37 ` Steve Doiel
2002-05-25 16:46 ` ON Topic: Ada for CP/M Frank J. Lhota
2002-05-25 22:57 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-26 5:57 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-06-07 21:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-05-28 16:24 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-29 13:48 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-05-29 13:17 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-30 0:43 ` Darren New
2002-05-30 13:58 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-31 18:19 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-05-31 18:31 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-05 13:09 ` [OT] VMS, was: " Simon Clubley
2002-05-30 2:53 ` Robert Dewar
2002-06-07 22:10 ` OT: Microsoft takes on history Randy Brukardt
2002-05-25 15:41 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-23 18:43 ` Microsoft takes on ACT chris.danx
2002-05-24 2:19 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-24 3:09 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-05-24 12:29 ` chris.danx
2002-05-24 13:39 ` Ingo Marks
2002-05-24 14:32 ` chris.danx
2002-05-24 17:59 ` OT: SuSE, Raid (was: Microsoft takes on ACT) Wilhelm Spickermann
2002-05-25 0:15 ` chris.danx
2002-05-25 5:25 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2002-05-25 23:45 ` chris.danx
2002-05-26 4:57 ` OT: " Wilhelm Spickermann
2002-05-26 9:52 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-26 10:40 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-05-25 9:36 ` OT: " Ingo Marks
2002-05-25 15:08 ` Microsoft takes on ACT Adrian Hoe
2002-05-24 14:56 ` [OT] Microsoft vs. Linux vs. Wes Groleau
2002-05-25 15:25 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-05-25 21:38 ` [OT] Switching to Linux (was: Microsoft takes on ACT) Michal Nowak
2002-05-26 9:37 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-27 9:23 ` Michal Nowak
2002-06-11 6:30 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-05-23 19:54 ` Microsoft takes on ACT sk
2002-05-23 21:14 ` Michael Bode
2002-05-25 22:41 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-26 20:19 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-26 21:04 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-27 6:46 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-27 6:46 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-27 23:37 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-05-28 9:30 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-28 16:34 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-24 8:08 ` Dewi Daniels
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