The top 100 stock
market authors
selected for publication
market authors
selected for publication
RLLH
»
Comments
» Single Comment
| 
Comments by Ticker
112 comments
Rating: 3
(92 
-
89 
)
-
89 )
-
The Seeking Alpha 100
See all
Seeking Alpha 100 » -
Fastest Climbers
Authors with the largestSee all
increase in followers
in the last 7 days
Fastest Climbers » -
Top Commenters
Top commenters,See all
as ranked by their peers
Top Commenters » -
Top Instabloggers
The 100 most activeSee all
Instabloggers.
Top Instabloggers » -
Top StockTalkers
TopSee all
StockTalkers.
Top StockTalkers »
-
You might want to correct your own history. DOS was not an IBM product. You are correct that Bill Gates bought it, but not from IBM.
Oct 29 18:54 pm
|Rating:
+1
0
All Comments by RLLH »Google's Android vs. Apple: History Repeats Itself [View article]
From Wikipedia:
"IBM again approached Bill Gates. Gates in turn approached Seattle Computer Products. There, programmer Tim Paterson had developed a variant of CP/M-80, intended as an internal product for testing SCP's new 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU card for the S-100 bus. The system was initially named "QDOS" (Quick and Dirty Operating System), before being made commercially available as 86-DOS. Microsoft purchased 86-DOS, allegedly for $50,000. This became Microsoft Disk Operating System, MS-DOS, introduced in 1981"