Re: Microsoft Flame[tm] [NOISE]

On Thu, 21 Dec 1995, jim bell wrote:

Well, I disagree. Microsoft succeeded primarily because it was "chosen" by IBM in about 1981 or so, needing an OS for their PC. MS didn't even write it; Seattle Computer did, and that was a port of CP/M. Not much creativity. MSDOS revisions 1.0 and 1.1 were pure crap.

I'm sure that's true to a large extent. However, although I may be wrong, I beleive that MS's primary reason for initial success was in MS BASIC. They needed a new OS to go with BASIC, so they used DOS. They needed a new filesystem to store BASIC files, and thus FAT was born. Tobin Fricke