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To: tcmay who wrote (33569)6/2/2002 11:57:32 PM
From: Alomex  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 213177
 
If you mean that MS was not the developer of CP/M, nor did it have the legal ability to license it to IBM, this is of course true.

Exactly.

As I said, Softcards were pretty popular in 1980.

For sure.

Also, IBM visited DR _first_, before visiting MS.

Not according to either of the two books I referenced before. (Gates by Manes and Adrews and The Making of Microsoft by Ichbiah and Kneeper).