July 27th, 2003, 08:52 PM
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Re: OT CGW Article
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Originally posted by Ruatha:
Didn't they but DOS from another programmer/company in the beginning, and then reprogram it, not starting from scratch though?
But windows 1.0 was their original product wasn't it? The code I mean, if it was their ideas is up for discussion, let's not get into that! 
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Actually, since I'm so OLD, I remember the story. IBM decided to join the "Apple II" fun by making their own personal computer. They hired a small company practically working out of a garage, Microsoft, to write their OS. Through a lack of foresight or flimsy contracting (or perhaps even allowed), Microsoft was allowed to expand on the OS they wrote for IBM and the rest, as they say, is history.
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