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jbz on Nostr: 🗓️ Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System ᐅ CHM 「 Kildall ...

🗓️ Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System
ᐅ CHM

「 Kildall tried to renew the negotiations a couple of weeks later. IBM did not respond because, in the meantime, Bill Gates purchased an OS from Seattle Computer Products that was written to emulate the look and feel of CP/M. He then sold a one-time, non-exclusive license to IBM, which used the designation PC DOS 」

https://computerhistory.org/blog/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system/

#CPM #DOS #PC #IBM #Retrocomputing
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