On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, Alan Zisman wrote to Holger Granholm:   
      
    AZ> Microsoft for a version of Basic; while MS was talking with them,   
    AZ> they mentioned that they might be able provide an inexpensive   
    AZ> operating system - and went and purchased another Seattle company   
    AZ> which had a clone of the then-popular CP/M - and hence MS-DOS was   
    AZ> 'born'.   
      
   i don't think that m$ ever purchased Seattle Computer Products... they only   
   purchased the rights to their QDOS (which was aka 86-DOS) which then then   
   mangled into DOS as we know it...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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