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   @failedLyndonLaRouchite It's a bit overly simplistic but yeah they paid something less than $100K entirely for the rights and hired the 86-DOS main developer, Tim Paterson, of 86-DOS to get it up to where it needed to be to become PC-DOS. MS-DOS 1.x was very rough but had lots of improvements over 86-DOS. IIRC MS-DOS 2.x was essentially a ground up rewrite though.
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     OddOpinions5 (failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 11:04:07 JST OddOpinions5

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     isn't there a famous video interview of B Gates

     So we bought the rights to DOS from Seattle for $50,000

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     we bought the rights for $50,000

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     $50,000

     the entire foundation of MS

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     hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 11:04:08 JST hankg

     Someone recently discovered the early copy of 86-DOS (the pre-cursor to PC-DOS/MS-DOS). This person made a video exploring it. This is version 0.11 from July 1980 previously seen by less than a dozen people.

     #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #history #msdos #microsoft #86dos
     Exploring The Hidden Roots of MS-DOS: 86-DOS 0.11 (1980)