CharlieBrown wrote: "so IBM went to the house down the street, where a young programmer named Bill Gates lived (who had bid on DOS as well, but who's inexperience had cost him the contract), and told him that if he could promise deliver, he had the job. He did, and the rest is history." And the guy Bill Gate's company went to to get their OS was the poor slob I was talking about. What he sold to Gates for peanuts, made Gate his first 20 million. :O)