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Who originally made the operating system that Microsoft bought for $50,000? I forgot who they sold it too. So sorry for the badly worded question.

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***http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS***

IBM again approached Bill Gates. Gates in turn approached Seattle Computer Products. There, programmer Tim Paterson had developed a variant of CP/M-80, intended as an internal product for testing SCP's new 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU card for the S-100 bus. The system was initially named "QDOS" (Quick and Dirty Operating System), before being made commercially available as 86-DOS. Microsoft purchased 86-DOS, allegedly for $50,000. This became Microsoft Disk Operating System, MS-DOS, introduced in 1981.[17]

answered Sep 05 '10 at 16:01

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Oh, ok thank you!!!!

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answered Sep 05 '10 at 15:52

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Technically, they also based Windows on their half of the joint OS/2 project.

answered Sep 05 '10 at 17:37

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