"As an interesting aside, while Gary Kildall had worked on CP/M for years, Tim Paterson of SCP compiled QDOS in under 6 weeks. He left SCP in 1981 and joined his friend Paul Allen at Microsoft. Later Kildall allegedly went to IBM and pointed out where his own copyright statement was still embedded in PC-DOS, but did not dare fight it out with the full force of IBM's legal division. To forestall legal action, IBM offered consumers the choice of either CP/M or MS-DOS. But at $240, six times the price of MS-DOS, CP/M was quickly headed for extinction.
Kildall's allegations of theft by SCP, and the fact that the differences between QDOS and CP/M are minute at best, can't have escaped Microsoft's attention at the time. And indeed, the fact that OS/2's inital code name was CP/DOS, when Microsoft started to collaborate on its development with IBM in 1985, suggests that it hasn't. This leads to the interesting conclusion that if this is true, then Microsoft and IBM knowingly acted as fences, and Microsoft founded a global empire on a crime."
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_1.html
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@...> wrote:
>
> On 7/25/2011 8:22 PM, dvdpst wrote:
>
> > Oh Robert. Another clue that made me think you never ran OS/2 was MICROSOFT
> > never made it. IBM DID.
> >
> > david
> >
>
> OS/2 was a joint venture between Microsoft and IBM.
>
> Microsoft abandoned the project when their Windows project took off:
>
> http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/os2warp.html
>
> Look... I get it. Your not-so-subtle hints that I am an outright liar
> have come through loud and clear, but I just don't care.
>
> I ran OS/2 Warp v.3 and 4, and wrote some REXX code apps, and acquired
> the hat and shirt: http://www.robertwittig.net/temp/OS2/
>
> ... and moved on to *nix and C/C++.
>
> I initially joined the Yahoo 'linux' list:
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX/
>
> ...which is the parent Group to the Linux_NEWBIES list around 2003, and
> am currently one of the admins on that list, since April 17, 2010.
>
> I joined Linux_Newbies on April 17, 2005.
>
> If you have any questions about Linux, I might be willing to attempt
> answering them.
>
> End of discussion.
>
>
> --
> http://www.robertwittig.com/
> http://robertwittig.net/
> http://robertwittig.org/
> .
>
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