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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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Nov 21 9:30 AM EST

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To: Tom C who wrote (46709)	6/14/2000 9:55:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Good for you Tom. I'm glad you were able to run SCO Unix on your PC. However, the normal everyday consumer had to buy MS-DOS (PC-DOS) because that is what came with the PC. M$FT was IBM's preferred vendor, remember??? IBM legitimized the PC for the office market, and they didn't select Xenix, they didn't select, SCO-Unix, and they didn't select CP/M. MS-DOS was just a piece of garbage written by a couple of hackers from Seattle. It took the IBM imprimatur to make it into a big seller. You sound like a bright guy. Maybe you could have written your own O/S and run it. I had users in the early days who wanted to run their own PC-desktops without ANY Operating System. So what does that have to do with the price of tea in China??? BTW: IBM screwed up royally. They should have bought the rights to MS-DOS and donated it to ISO.

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