Comment by stefantalpalaru
3 years ago
> In assessing Microsoft’s reaction to DR DOS, I must think what would be own reaction if I had designed and implemented something, and someone copied my design into a distinct implementation of their own.
"MS-DOS was a renamed form of 86-DOS – owned by Seattle Computer Products, written by Tim Paterson." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS?useskin=vector
I mean yeah, but it’s not like they just copied it from him.
> Microsoft, which needed an operating system for the IBM Personal Computer,[8][9] hired Tim Paterson in May 1981 and bought 86-DOS 1.10 for US$75,000 in July of the same year. Microsoft kept the version number, but renamed it MS-DOS.