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2012-06-21 , 16:35
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Originally Posted by strongm View Post
1) Microsoft existed before IBM gettiong the OS contract with IBM. About 5 1/2 years, in fact.

2) Wasn't really a question of Big Blue being lazy. The PC development team were specifcally tasked with getting the PC to market as quickly as possible, and decided to source various components, including the OS, from outside vendors to achieve this. What they really wanted was CP/M, which they tried to commission from Digital Research. And what they ended up with was 86-DOS, which was API compatible with CP/M

3) DOS never stood for Dirty Operating System. QDOS (which later became 86-DOS), however, did stand for Quick and Dirty Operating System, but you can't extract just the DOS from there, out of context.
whatever you say
fact is: wihtout IBM's order, they would have disappeared just like Seattle Computers Products, the actual creator of QDOS / 86-DOS, did.
the only reason they (still) exist is because (not even) their crappy product was sold with every XT/AT/PC & they got some license fees;

not going to happen on the mobile market.
on the contrary...
«WHAT?!? a m$ product ? i'll take anything else!»
>¦-)))))))))))))

EDIT: worst is, if that @$$O of Flop hadn't soiled NOKIA's name with his m0#0nic statements, the same thing that happened on the computer market (m$ become the de facto standard because they were sold on every IBM XT/AT/PC, back then the largest IT company in the world) could have happend on the mobile phone market
consumers would have bought m$ just by buying NOKIA out of routine, without even thinking about it
good enough a reason for Bllamer to always look so angrily @ Flop ¦-))))))))))))))))))))))))
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