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jan 31, 1980 - MS-DOS

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IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. The pair buys the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and uses it as a template. IBM allows the two to keep the marketing rights to the operating system, called DOS.

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Decade of Computers

ByCassandra Derrig
5 Nov 2018

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jan 31, 1980
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~ 44 years ago

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