Bill Gates invented computers?
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Bill Gates invented computers?
No he didn't. Does that invalidate the rest of chris lee's post?Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
didnt actually say that, 'pretty much' as in I assumed most people would understand his significant contribution
You could have done what he did!
"MS-DOS was a renamed form of 86-DOS – owned by Seattle Computer Products, written by Tim Paterson. Development of 86-DOS took only six weeks, as it was basically a clone of Digital Research's CP/M (for 8080/Z80 processors), ported to run on 8086 processors and with two notable differences compared to CP/M; an improved disk sector buffering logic, and the introduction of FAT12 instead of the CP/M filesystem.
This first version was shipped in August 1980. Microsoft, which needed an operating system for the IBM Personal Computer, hired Tim Paterson in May 1981 and bought 86-DOS 1.10 for US$75000 in July of the same year. Microsoft kept the version number, but renamed it MS-DOS. They also licensed MS-DOS 1.10/1.14 to IBM, which, in August 1981, offered it as PC DOS 1.0 as one of three operating system for the IBM 5150, or the IBM PC."
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