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Who invented DOS?

Asked by RedDeerGuy1 (24487points) May 29th, 2017
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Pirates of Silicon valley said that Bill Gates bought DOS (disk operating system) for $50,000. How did the inventor end up?

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Zaku's avatar

Not especially great. See Seattle Computer Products and Tim Paterson .

86 DOS wasn’t really a brilliant invention. It was a DOS riff on CP/M.

canidmajor's avatar

Wow, @Zaku, flashback. My first computer was a Kaypro that ran on CP/M. Thanks for the memory! :-)

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LostInParadise's avatar

Microsoft got the idea for the Windows operating system from Apple, who in turn used the ideas from the brilliant research group at Xerox, who also came up with the mouse. Xerox was never able to cash in on the ideas and eventually stopped marketing computers.

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