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to: Jimmy Mac
from: Sean Dennis
date: 2011-06-18 15:34:02
subject: IBM

Hello, Jimmy.

Saturday June 18 2011 at 11:42, you wrote to me:

 JM> Not really - Yes IBM created the first PC's but it was M$ that
 JM> licensed the OS to them. (If I remember correctly - that was in the
 JM> late 70's wasn't it?) I think I remember the first PC's coming out
 JM> sometime in 1980 or 81.

IBM invented the hardware; MS "invented" the OS.  If Digital
didn't have their head up their butt, we'd have all been running CP/M. :)

Later,
Sean

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