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	danramos	2011-07-17 , 20:13
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Originally Posted by ericsson

The race was between Commodore, Apple and a few others, Oric etc. The IBM PC was extremely expensive in comparison, a factor 10 typically. But because of Word Perfect and Lotus, MSFS and so on, the only thing to have was a IBM or a clone. CP/M had nothing to do with this, at that time the world were all Commodore and Amstradt, Oric and so on while IBM was exclusively business. Commodore faught well, but had to give in eventually.

Somebody seems to have forgotten MS/DOS's heritage and why it was bought (aside from being a cheap and desperate need to quickly give SOMETHING to IBM after already selling an OS they didn't yet have, it was easy to port CP/M apps and commands onto... at least, originally).

Also... faught? I laughed. Hard. So hard, I nearly faughted.

Couldn't be a typo--If you meant 'fought', it's a long way from o to a.

Sorry, sorry.. it's silly, but man that's a weirdo misspelling.

Suggested reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M#MS-DOS_takes_over

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Last edited by danramos; 2011-07-17 at 20:25. Reason: Added suggested reading

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