Re: [NTLK] [OT] It's MS-DOS 6.22 day!

On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:57 PM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:

> Mike Rodgers wrote:
>> I also know that to create DOS, Microsoft had to borrow from CPM
>> and Unix.
>
> Ah, Micro$oft didn't "create" DOS; they virtually stole it from the
> developer by their routine tactic of promising a bunch of money and
> then
> only paying a pittance.
>
> IBM originally wanted to use CP/M, but when that fell through they
> went
> to M$. M$ agreed to provide IBM with the M$ product; the only
> problem is
> that they DIDN'T have a viable OS! So they glommed on the the OS that
> they then re-packaged as MS-DOS.
>
> Frankly, IMO, M$ hasn't created anything; just copied other software
> vendors ideas and modified them.

Hence, my favorite M$ mission description. It's very old, don't know
where
I saw it first; it's been a long ago:

"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is
           probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners."

;-)

Best, M.

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