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Re: Microsoft Flame[tm] [NOISE]
Forget about the monopoly aspects for a second and look
>at MS as an American success story. It has all the classic elements: started
>small, with a crew of social misfits and eventually grew up.
>RobL
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>Rob Lowry |
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>Rockford Wa 99030 | [email protected] [email protected]
Well, I disagree. Microsoft succeeded primarily because it was "chosen" by
IBM in about 1981 or so, needing an OS for their PC. MS didn't even write
it; Seattle Computer did, and that was a port of CP/M. Not much creativity.
MSDOS revisions 1.0 and 1.1 were pure crap.