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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: M2 history - relations to Ada
Date: 1999/02/04
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news.oxy.com wrote in message <79bp1n$fd5$1@remarQ.com>...
<large snip>
>How about that, then!  First "Windows" was created before Bill Gates wrote
>his "DOS" for IBM PC.
Just one small point of clarification about this "history:"
Gates didn't write DOS. Microsoft, which had been writing language
translators -- e.g., BASIC and FORTRAN -- _bought_ DOS from Seattle Computer
Products.