Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux in Mondays NY Times | Date | Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:41:54 PDT | From | "Marty Leisner" <> |
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> On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 kwrohrer@ce.mediaone.net wrote: >
> Worse that that. If you buy any Intel processor since the 8086, US$5.00 > of the cost is a license fee paid to Micro$haft. Micro$haft claims > ownership to the "Intel Architecture", i.e., what used to be called > the "IBM-PC/AT". They "purchased" the rights to this design from IBM > sometime in the early '70s, waited about 10 years for major developments > to be made by Intel and others, then threatened a suit. The settlement > was a 5.00 per processor fee to be paid by the end-user. > > > Cheers, > Dick Johnson > ***** FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED ***** > Penguin : Linux version 2.1.108 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips). > Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
I never heard this story before...
Do you have any references for it?
Microsoft started with a basic interpreter for the Altair (I think) in 1974. They were a non-systems player until IBM contracted them to supply the PC operating system (which they bought from Seattle Micro [I think in about 1980]).
Their contract with IBM gave them intellectual property rights/redistribution to PC-DOS (which begat MS-Dos, which begat windows). One of the most enormous flubs in computerdom is the fact that IBM did not maintain control of MS-DOS (an merely used microsoft as a contracter).
-- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com The Feynman problem solving Algorithm 1) Write down the problem 2) Think real hard 3) Write down the answer Murray Gell-mann in the NY Times
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