zafile - 2:26 am on Oct 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

To further stress the involvement of IBM with DOS 4.0 and its poor code, Bill Gates wrote in a memo from November 29 1989 and titled 'Future versions of DOS' the following:

"The ideal is to come out with new versions of DOS that are not only reliable but are 'smaller', 'faster', 'sexier' and 'more powerful'. In order to do this we need to rewrite some of the existing code. Undoing IBM's DOS 4 work is a step in the right direction but neither IBM nor the market place will accept something that is simply that.

"The core code in DOS..."

To read the rest, look for Plaintiff's Exhibit 184 in the case Comes v. Microsoft.

Pretty interesting memo...