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Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ2 Sendmail & Hotmail



"Robert G. Fisher" <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> by licensing a port of BASIC to the Altaire.  They later bought
> what would become 'DOS' from a geek who had been playing with
> cp/m style OS for a while at a pretty penny after they had
> already licensed (a then non-existent product for them) the OS
> to IBM.

Actually they didn't buy from a "geek" or something like that. They
bought it from a nearby company called "Seattle Computer Products". It
was then called 86-DOS and used for testing memory boards, which SCP
produced and sold.


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