From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 95 10:52:58 PST
To: RobL <robl@on-ramp.ior.com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Flame[tm] [NOISE]
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 Forget about the monopoly aspects for a second and look
>at MS as an American success story. It has all the classic elements: started
>small, with a crew of social misfits and eventually grew up.

>RobL
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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.