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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 485.92+0.4%Dec 19 9:30 AM EST
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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (4892)1/31/1998 2:56:00 PM
From: X-Ray Man  Read Replies (1) of 74651
 
Oh, Gerald, you're showing your ignorance.

First of all, CPM very much predates DOS. It was an
8-bit operating system. There was even a multi-user
version called MPM.

Second, that you can assemble a system without paying
MSFT begs the question, since the whole discussion was
in the context of the general marketplace and consumer
experience, in which 99.44% of the systems are not sold
the way you described. Nobody holds a gun to your head
to buy electricity from your local utility, but it is
still effectively a monopoly. Sheesh.
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