unreviewed - 7:43 pm on Jul 31, 2007 (gmt 0)

>>The real kudos need to go to Gary Kildall of Digital Research that created CP/M which was the basis of MS-DOS as Bill Gates purchased a 16-bit clone of CP/M to resell to IBM.

Actually, Kildall messed up big time. He had both IBM and Gates at his door, but wouldn’t sign a non-disclosure agreement. And although it’s true that Gates bought DOS … it was Gates that wrote MSDOS BASIC, and the importance of BASIC was everything. Because at that time, you didn’t buy software, you had to roll your own.