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To: Bux who wrote (22206)	1/29/1999 12:18:00 PM
From: J.B.C.	Respond to of 152472

>>Bill was dealing with IBM when he had nothing to loose. I bet the entire DOS fit on one 720k floppy with room to spare and as I remember, MSFT wasn't even public. << Bill was approached by IBM but turned them away, gave them a lead for someone who had an operating system package. That guy's wife refused to sign the non-disclosure agreement and sent IBM packing. IBM was desperate so they went back to Bill, he went up the street and bought an operating system for $50K, and licensed it to IBM for $50.00 per computer, that was they key! IBM's desk-top got reversed engineered, the chip was designed by intel and the clone's started coming to market and low they had to go to Bill to license the operating system. Quite a story, If Bill would have sold the OS to IBM instead of licensing, he'ld be just another software firm. Jim