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To: HerbVic who wrote (33497)	5/30/2002 11:16:12 AM
From: Alomex	of 213177

From the book "The Making of Microsoft": When the IBM representatives asked Gates whether Microsoft could sell them CP/M (which MS already licensed from Digital Research), Gates picked up the phone [and arranged a meeting between IBM and Digital Research's]. Gary Kildall [from Digital Research] didn't seem willing to commit the resources [to the IBM project] [and was away on a business trip, playing golf or flying a plane, depending on who you ask]. One memorable night, September 28, 1980 Gates, Allen and Nishi met in Gates office. They discussed at length the possibility of designing the operating system for IBM themselves. Microsoft did not have time to develop a system of that magnitude. It would be better to adapt an existing system. Then the name Tim Patterson came to Allen's mind. Patterson had just finished creating an 8086 opreating system for the computer he had built for Seattle Computer Products. The book "Gates" by S. Manes and P. Andrews gives a similar story.

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