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$50k? Just for MS Basic? Heck, Bill and Steve bought QDOS from Tim Paterson for that exact amount, and resold it to IBM for use as PC-DOS. Maybe they needed
by cubano 12y ago
$50k? Just for MS Basic?
Heck, Bill and Steve bought QDOS from Tim Paterson for that exact amount, and resold it to IBM for use as PC-DOS.
Maybe they needed your $50k to help finance the purchase.
- contextfree 12y agoWell according to Gordon Letwin who was there at the time "DOS was a one-time throw-away product intended to keep IBM happy so that they'd buy our languages" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS )