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To: mercy
This guy with the unpronouncable name is going to be as rich as Bill gates if he has any business acumen at all.

That would be a rare combination. Let's not forget that a part of Gates success can be laid to the fact that his mother was on the board of directors at IBM when he sold them the rights to use DOS. Talk about having a "Rabbi"!

None the less,I am sure this young man will suddenly have thousands of new friends,all of whom will be more that willing to learn how to pronounce his name,and all of whom will be MBA's.

44 posted on 03/20/2002 5:23:26 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: sneakypete
His mother had zip to do with it. MIcrosoft in 1980 was already a leading language manufacturer for microcomputers. CPM was the first choice of IBM, not MS-DOS. CPM grabbed a bunch of attitude and IBM went away. The lawyers for CPM did them in. Microsoft took many chances and worked their collective butts off to create MS-DOS for the IBM computer. Even then, CPM and other operating systems were developed for the IBM PC.
52 posted on 03/20/2002 9:07:44 AM PST by PatrioticAmerican
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