Re: Re: IBM
  By: Mark Hofmann to Jimmy Mac on Sun Jun 19 2011 02:13 pm

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 >
 > JM> Not really - Yes IBM created the first PC's but it was M$ that licensed
 > JM> the OS to them. (If I remember correctly - that was in the late 70's
 > JM> wasn't it?) I think I remember the first PC's coming out sometime in
 > JM> 1980 or 81.
 >
 > Actually, IBM practically gave Microsoft what later became
"DOS".  What
 > became DOS, was originally written by IBM.

Yeah, no that's not correct.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS#History

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