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or it. Because I.B.M. thought that the money was going to be in the hardware, in the computers themselves, it allowed Gates to retain the rights to ms-dos. During the nineteen-eighties, the PC was cloned by other American manufacturers and by the Japanese, who could make and sell the machines more che
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
or it. Because I.B.M. thought that the money was going to be in the hardware, in the =computers themselves, it allowed Gates to retain the rights to ms-dos. =During the nineteen-eighties, the PC was cloned by other American manufacturers and by the Japanese, who could make and sell the machines =more ch
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
or it. Because I.B.M. thought that the money was going to be in the hardware, in the =computers themselves, it allowed Gates to retain the rights to ms-dos. =During the nineteen-eighties, the PC was cloned by other American manufacturers and by the Japanese, who could make and sell the machines =more ch
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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