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From: Jim Wong
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 1995 08:18

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Suraj Gulrajani (suraj@mozart.inet.co.th) wrote:
> 
> Believe it or not, MS-DOS actually WAS a recompiled version of CP/M.. !! 
> Bill Gates stole the CP/M code (bought it cheap, re-compiled, and sold to 
> IBM with copyright, etc. to himself... )  So CP/M lives even in '95, eh? :)
> 

No, no, no.

Bill Gates shot down the airplane owned by the author of CP/M using a gun
he borrowed from an employee of the Seattle Computer Company.  He then
stole the BASIC source code from a locked compartment in the cockpit and,
so he could use  the code without rewriting it, wrote a BASIC interpreter
in 8088 assembly language on the way home.  Gates never returned the gun;
instead, he hired the guy who lent it to him.  It's my understanding that
he's currently in charge of Word for Macintosh customer support.

-- 
Jim Wong (jd-wong@uiuc.edu)

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium...
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 1995 03:18:33 -0500
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