Quoting James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>:
On 01/04/2017 01:57 PM, Wols Lists wrote:
Actually, that was Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak. What Bill Gates did was sell IBM DOS, before he bought it from Seattle Computer Products, which in turn was based on and contained code from CP/M. It was IBM making it and almost completely open system that generated the clone market and mass acceptance. There were also clones of the Apple computers. It wouldn't surprise me if it was neither. Still, we do like re-writing history in our favour, and as the guy who seized control of the computer I'm not surprised that it was re-written to favour Bill Gates.
Well, I recall those days well. I bought my first computer, an IMSAI 8080 over 30 years ago. I also have every print edition of Byte magazine on the shelves here. In fact, I bought the first 3 issues in person from the original publisher of Byte, Wayne Greene, at the 1975 Radio Society of Ontario convention in Ottawa, Ont. So, I've been involved long enough to remember those days.
BTW, in one of those Byte issues, there's an article by Gary Paterson, of Seattle Computer, who developed what he called Q-DOS, and intended it to be just a development system, while waiting for CP/M-86 to be released. This is what Bill Gates sold to IBM, before he actually owned it.
My understanding is the Q-DOS stood for Quick and Dirty Operating System. It was a 16 bit CP/M look similar. Ugly. It was an something so he could sell hardware. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org