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To: i-node who wrote (446611)	1/11/2009 1:17:27 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) of 1574852

PC-DOS "IBM had the resources to develop it internally in a very short period of time." This is totally wrong. IBM engineers had no clue how to make an OS that small. The hobbyists were years ahead, which is why IBM did what they did. It's also why they set up an outside group to do the hardware. The PC wasn't regarded as a likely business success by the mainframe guys at IBM. Gates, who had far more vision, gets all the credit for the crappy deal he sold IBM for the OS he bought from another guy for $50k. That had to be the deal of the century.

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