On 2015-01-27, 10:40 AM, mark lewis -> Alan Zisman wrote:   
      
    ml>   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'.   
      
    ml> i don't think that m$ ever purchased Seattle Computer Products... they   
    ml> only purchased the rights to their QDOS (which was aka 86-DOS) which   
    ml> then then mangled into DOS as we know it...   
      
   You're probably right.... certainly they didn't pay a lot of money considering   
   what it turned into!   
      
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