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July 27th, 2003, 09:19 PM

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Re: OT CGW Article

As I recall, they licenced MS-DOS to IBM for use in their PC hardware for like, $USD 1 -- provided IBM included Microsoft interpreted BASIC. Orgininal IBM PC's boot the interpreter if they can't find the MSDOS.

IBM got to keep that sweet deal even up to the PS/2 -- the low end 286 models have MS interpreted BASIC(with cassette commands

) in their roms.

It's a pretty widely know rumor that Bill Gates hates IBM because of their original deal.

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