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To: rudedog who wrote (11668)	10/22/1998 5:30:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Technically your right - it was not DR-DOS but Digital Research's pre-cursor to DR-DOS - CP/M... "History: Became very popular with microcomputers before the first IBM PC arrived. In 1981 IBM was looking for an OS for their PC they had a talk to Bill Gates, the CEO of a small software company named Microsoft, and he told them to go to Digital Research, the people who had developed CP/M. But Digital Research wasn't interested and/or they couldn'y finish it in time, because at that time CP/M was still an 8 bit OS and IBM used they Intel 8088, a 16 bit microprocessor. So IBM got back to Bill and he bought an CP/M clone running on the Intel 8088. The rest is history as they say." As for Geoworks, that was an add-on topic not related to your initial discussion. I knew that was later than your timeline. Toy

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