• phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Bill Gates main contribution was having is mommy get him a deal to provide an OS to IBM.

    Gates didn’t have an OS, so he bought DOS from another company and repackaged it as his own to licensed it to IBM.

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      1 year ago

      QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) became MS-DOS (MicroSoft, kept the DOS).