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To: craig crawford who wrote (125972)	6/5/2001 3:54:16 AM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164687

Yup, but there's a couple of things left out. #1 BG ran across some software already developed by a small firm called Seattle software. He borrowed $50k from his Dad and bought it. He then went to IBM and sold them on using it for the first PC being developed. #2 Now, where his negotiating skills really set in was he kept the ownership of the software, and IBM agreed to pay him only on a per installed basis. That $50k software he bought was called DOS...he changed the name to MS-DOS, which is now windows. >and investing the proceeds in biotechnology siliconinvestor.com