Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Date: 19 Jan 2025 04:35:52 GMT Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <181b83589a58e91d$131121$32720$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <7z2dncmravKf2BH6nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ayhB8GO4nb+PpGoLp97UJwujGVWH1yprCCjK+Ljl1KMIrXG3FX Cancel-Lock: sha1:QjRnQlG4ASnBrOW/pClxyIIZ4vQ= sha256:LOgzHDptYvAqqI3iHOAtjlvWEaOw/D+y0hlDdtoLivA= User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:684323 On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:19:14 +0000, Tyrone wrote: > On Jan 18, 2025 at 5:05:50 PM EST, "Physfitfreak" > wrote: > >> I think those Capones even killed the developer of what they copied >> their DOS from. The Capones were afraid he'll one day, this time >> successfully, sue them when court of law will get better adjusted to >> new tech realities. > > Absolute nonsense. > > Microsoft BOUGHT 86-DOS from Tim Paterson (Seattle Computer Products) > for $25,000 in 1981. Microsoft also hired Tim. 86-DOS was a port of > CP/M (Z80/8080 CPU) to the 8086/8088 CPU used in the IBM-PC. 86-DOS > became MS-DOS. > > At the time, CP/M was the standard. IBM first approached Digital > Research for CP/M for the PC, but Gary Kildall was not smart enough to > recognize an opportunity knocking on his door. IBM then approached > Microsoft for a DOS, because MS was already supplying the BASIC > programming language. Bill Gates quickly agreed, even though they had > NOTHING at that point. > > This is all well known history. https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/18/how_windows_got_to_v3/ It has a link to even a longer article. My Luddite phase lasted until '93 so I went from MSDOS to Windows 3.1 without the intervening agony. Even 3.1 needed the Trumpet Winsock shareware if you expected to connect to anytihng.