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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (4892)	1/31/1998 2:56:00 PM
From: X-Ray Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Oh, Gerald, you're showing your ignorance. First of all, CPM very much predates DOS. It was an 8-bit operating system. There was even a multi-user version called MPM. Second, that you can assemble a system without paying MSFT begs the question, since the whole discussion was in the context of the general marketplace and consumer experience, in which 99.44% of the systems are not sold the way you described. Nobody holds a gun to your head to buy electricity from your local utility, but it is still effectively a monopoly. Sheesh.

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (4892)	1/31/1998 11:38:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Gerald you must be very young There were three OS's introduced with the original PC --- USCD Pascal, CP/M and DOS. DOS source code was published by IBM. MSFT retained the right to license the OS to other manufacturers. IBM did not exercise a monopoly over the OS. You seem to think they did. That means you do not understand anything about this industry and how it developed and should definitely go back to school and start over again. On the other hand you could spend all your time at Fry's and become a salesman or something equally useful.