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ation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telephone for a hundred thousand dollars, he is said to have replied, "What use could this company make of an electric toy?" This rem
hs--an impossibly short time--and Gates accepted the job. Upon returning 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
sation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telephone for a hundred thousand dollars, he is said to have replied, "What use could this company make of an electric toy?" This rem
hs--an impossibly short time--and Gates accepted the job. Upon returning 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-writin
sation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telephone for a hundred thousand dollars, he is said to have replied, "What use could this company make of an electric toy?" This rem
hs--an impossibly short time--and Gates accepted the job. Upon returning 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-writin
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