From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 25 17:26:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA23693 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 17:26:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA23679 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 17:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id SAA04804; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 18:25:31 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199708260025.SAA04804@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Since the MicroSloth(tm) jokes have been flowing... To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 18:25:30 -0600 (MDT) Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Fieber" at Aug 25, 97 10:42:24 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > But MS didn't write DOS. It was written by Tim Patterson at > Seattle Computer Products and MS bought it for $50,000. Bzzzt! Wrong answer. MS bought two "licenses to use" for $500.00 apiece, disassembled it, changed a few strings, reassembled it, and called this "MS-DOS 1.0". SCP later sued them and recovered 20 million or so, which certainly caused Microsoft less pain than developing their own OS would have. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com