The story that I heard was that Gary was out when IBM came to call, so they chose Bill Gates and Microsoft because he and it were eager to please.
Or do you believe the story where IBM handed over a bog-standard NDA and Gary freaked completely out of his mind?
Never trust "official" story, Gary was tricked by Bill Gates and robbed by IBM.
>Gary was tricked by Bill Gates
Didn't he take Microsoft to court over MS-DOS?
He should have, if he didn't.
By the time the court took his case there were other clones. Meanwhile, the company behind Lotus kept the "patent" of freaking spreadsheets. You can smell corrupt judges from miles away.
Well, whatever happened, just imagine the CPU-independent world that we would be living in now. CP/M could be compiled for practically anything. Maybe the Intel part of the WinTel monopoly would have died in the 80s.
I'm thinking of running a Commodore 128 emulator so that I can get CP/M.
Is this madness or the right approach?
That way, you get the OS running on appropriate (virtual) hardware from the same age.