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To: jonkai who wrote (33521)	5/31/2002 11:16:45 PM
From: HerbVic	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

jonkai --- perhaps you missed this part.... so IBM went to Bill Gates . IBM didn't know it, but Microsoft had no operating system to sell them. No. Perhaps you missed that I COPIED THAT INTO MY RESPONDING POST so that you could see that there was no refuting evidence in it, even if taken for Gospel. Here it is again since you missed it: "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." And I'll spell it out for you. The way it is written, an association is implied, not stated. An implied fact is not refuting evidence. Using the word "SO" in front of a statement is an implied association. It does not say that IBM went to Micro-Soft to get an OS. If IBM did not go to Micro-Soft to get an OS, then they would not know that Micro-Soft did not have one to sell them. And they didn't have one! They didn't have much of anything to interest IBM except a Harvard drop out, and then only because they were told to be interested. Versions of BASIC were available everywhere. Woz and Jobs had one burned into ROM early in the game. Hell, Micro-Soft BASIC was just another knock-off with a FEW more command line features than the rest. They were good, but they didn't do anything up to that point to attract the attention of a conservative corporate giant like IBM. Why is it so hard for you to grasp that these guys were no-bodys except for the Gates family name? IBM was looking for an OS solution. Micro-Soft, a small private company, had a BASIC interpreter. How do you think IBM found Micro-Soft? They were too new and too small to be listed in the Thompsons Register. There was no Internet component involved. I'm not saying it happened thusly, but I am saying you haven't refuted it yet. And, I'm saying that my version sounds more plausible than the official one you keep pointing to. Believe it! Or Not. HerbVic