Microsoft Flame[tm] [NOISE]
Light Ray
fricke at mae.engr.ucdavis.edu
Thu Dec 21 17:50:02 PST 1995
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
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