hehehe, ah the memories, just for those who don't know their history, get a load of this.
CP/M was made by digital to operate their stand alone micro-computers with winchester drives (oh god.... gag) anyway. One find day IBM was in the mist of developing their state of the art IBM personal computer with a wapping 4Mhz if I'm not mistaken, the one with the Charly Chaplain commercials. But IBM needed an operating system so they went knocking on the door of Digital for a modified version of cp/m to put into their pc's. At that time Mr. Digital told them to go see his wife. The next day they go and see Mrs. Digital, knock knock. Mrs. Digital told them that she didn't have time for them and to come back tomorrow. The next day, they show up and she basically tells them to take a hike. So IBM had enough and went back home, they contacted a small firm in Seattle, actually they didn't have an office, called microsoft. Billy and Alan stole some suits from a couple of stiffs at the morgue and went to IBM and basically lied to them, saying that they could provide them with an OS. MS comes back to seattle and steels the first version of DOS from a fat man that they knew from their geek club for $45,000 and get total ownership, they do minor revisions to it and go back to IBM just in time for the demo. Well the demo barely passed but MS told IBM that they would do an upgrade for free but MS would license it to them instead of a contract to fix it up and do a second version. First of all if Digital would have given IBM a modified cp/m things would definetely be different, second if IBM would have forced the purchased of the OS from Microsoft, which they had a right todo, MS would have never been heard from again but IBM was too greedy they saw FREE and jumped on it. A few bad decisions and a lucky gamble that changed world history forever.
