In 1980 IBM first approached Bill Gates and Microsoft to discuss the state of home computers and Microsoft products including MS-DOS.
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Seattle Computer Products decides to make their own disk operating system (DOS), due to delays by Digital Research in releasing a CP/M-86 operating system.
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History of operating systems. history of operating systems Set up included loading data and program, by front panel switches, punched card, magnetic tapes, paper tapes, disk packs, drum drives, and other early I/O and storage devices.
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"The Unusual History of MS-DOS The Microsoft Operating System". http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa033099.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
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MS-DOS was a renamed form of 86-DOS (informally known as the Quick-and-Dirty Operating System or Q-DOS) owned by Seattle Computer...
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DOS (Disk Operating System Tim Patterson begins writing an operating system for use with Seattle Computer Products' 8086-based computer. Seattle Computer Products decides to make their own disk operating system (DOS), due to delays by Digital Research in releasing a CP/M-86 operating system.
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You could order one of three operating systems for your PC, assuming you popped for the optional disk drive and 64k RAM upgrade (base models had 16k and a cassette player port).
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Since Intel did not think that disk-based microcomputers had much of a future, They also asked him if he knew of an operating system to run on the PC. Gates suggested that IBM contact Digital Research, then the world's dominant operating systems company. Making what was surely the worst business decision in recorded history,
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For further information regarding the supportability of BusLogic or LSI Logic SCSI adapters with your guest operating system, see the VMware Guest/Host If you prefer, you may use a utility such as rawrite on Windows or dd on Linux to make a physical floppy disk from the floppy image file. History of Virtualization...
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