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"Bill is just smarter than everyone else," Mike Maples, an executive vice-president of Microsoft, says.
rning to Seattle, he bought an operating system called qdos, which was short for Quick and Dirty Operating System, from another software developer, Seattle Computer, for around seventy-five thousand dollars, renamed it ms- dos, and, in a three-month code-writing marathon, convened it to I.B.M.'s specifications.
"Bill is just smarter than everyone else," Mike Maples, an executive vice-president of Microsoft, says.
rning to Seattle, he bought an operating system called qdos, which =was short for Quick and Dirty Operating System, from another software developer, Seattle Computer, for around seventy-five thousand dollars, =renamed it ms-dos, and, in a three-month code-writing marathon, converted it to I.B.M.'s specifications.
"Bill is just smarter than everyone else," Mike Maples, an executive vice-president of Microsoft, says.
rning to Seattle, he bought an operating system called qdos, which =was short for Quick and Dirty Operating System, from another software developer, Seattle Computer, for around seventy-five thousand dollars, =renamed it ms-dos, and, in a three-month code-writing marathon, converted it to I.B.M.'s specifications.
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