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		canucker2016 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as fr... MS bought SCP's QDOS less than one year after IBM came to them to discuss software for the IBM PC. source - Paul Allen's autobio, Tim Paterson's blog entry.

lproven 6 months ago [–]

Conceded, OK. It wasn't a hit yet: it was before the PC's launch.

Even so, the point remains: it didn't buy it at first.

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