Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (129667)	8/5/2001 4:32:41 AM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Glenn, IMOP an article worth reading. Some years back in the archives here there's a post I made to Robert Rose explaining to him how the MicroSoft story started. My point is its all about luck and timing. >For the operating system software that would run the machine, IBM first approached Gary Kildall's Digital Research, which turned down IBM's request to buy its operating system for $250,000. IBM then turned to Microsoft, a tiny Bellevue, Wash., start-up. Microsoft found an operating system written for Intel's 8086 chip called SCP-DOS, short for Seattle Computer Products Disk Operating System, which it bought and adapted into MS-DOS. In a fateful decision, IBM didn't require either company to sign exclusive supply agreements, permitting them to sell their wares to competitors that would ultimately challenge IBM's PC dominance. www0.mercurycenter.com