David G. Nagel wrote:

It should also be pointed out that IBM, when they came up with their
computer, sought out Bill and his buddy and asked them to create the OS
for their radical new computer. Bill originally wanted to sell the OS to
IBM but IBM didn't want to have to support the code. The rest as they
say is history.

IBM sought out Gates, who at the time did not have an OS at all. Why
would they do this I wonder? They could have gone straight to Patterson
who developed the OS instead of Gates, who had to go Patterson to buy it
off of him. Gates had no clue how it even worked...

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Jack
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