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When IBM released the Personal PC it offered MS-DOS for $40 and DR-DOS for $240, thus neutering DR-DOS. Back then $200 was a lot of money for something that loo
by 9front 2y ago
When IBM released the Personal PC it offered MS-DOS for $40 and DR-DOS for $240, thus neutering DR-DOS. Back then $200 was a lot of money for something that looked and worked very much like MS-DOS.
- pavlov 2y agoThat would be CP/M-86. It also missed the launch window for the IBM PC and wasn’t available until six months later, so PC-DOS had every opportunity to establish itself. As the article notes, DR-DOS didn’t become a product until many years later.
- rasz 2y agoExcept that $240 price point was negotiated by Kildall, he simply didnt expect Microsoft to sell something as important as Operating System for the price of Atari game.