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To: HerbVic who wrote (33497)	5/30/2002 11:16:12 AM
From: Alomex	Respond to of 213177

From the book "The Making of Microsoft": When the IBM representatives asked Gates whether Microsoft could sell them CP/M (which MS already licensed from Digital Research), Gates picked up the phone [and arranged a meeting between IBM and Digital Research's]. Gary Kildall [from Digital Research] didn't seem willing to commit the resources [to the IBM project] [and was away on a business trip, playing golf or flying a plane, depending on who you ask]. One memorable night, September 28, 1980 Gates, Allen and Nishi met in Gates office. They discussed at length the possibility of designing the operating system for IBM themselves. Microsoft did not have time to develop a system of that magnitude. It would be better to adapt an existing system. Then the name Tim Patterson came to Allen's mind. Patterson had just finished creating an 8086 opreating system for the computer he had built for Seattle Computer Products. The book "Gates" by S. Manes and P. Andrews gives a similar story.

To: HerbVic who wrote (33497)	5/30/2002 11:54:11 AM
From: jonkai	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

it's quite possible that there was a business meeting instead of a personal job interview ok, well you can find plenty of internet links showing that IBM contacted MSFT because they needed an OS, and they thought MSFT had one..... so i don't think your recollection that it was a personal job interview is correct....... it was more of a meeting for a consulting job for a whole company...... cs.uop.edu In July 1980, IBM began Project Chess, recruiting 12 engineers to develop and build a prototype microcomputer. The code name for the computer was "Acorn". Acorn, to become popularly known as the IBM-PC, represented IBM's reluctant entry into the still-small microcomputer market. IBM first contacted Gary Kildall about using his CP/M microcomputer operating system, which Kildall copyrighted in May 1976, for the Acorn. However, Kildall was not interested, so IBM went to Bill Gates. IBM didn't know it, but Microsoft had no operating system to sell them.