Development of MSDOS from "summary" of Fire in the Valley by Paul Freiberger,Michael Swaine
The development of MSDOS was a pivotal moment in the history of computing. It was a project born out of necessity, as IBM was in need of an operating system for its new line of personal computers. The task fell to a small software company called Microsoft, founded by a young Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
The challenge was daunting - to create an operating system from scratch that could run on the new IBM PC. However, Gates and Allen were up to the task. They acquired a simple operating system called QDOS, which they then modified and rebranded as MS-DOS. The key to their success was in keeping the system simple and efficient, focusing on functionality over complexity.
MS-DOS was a text-based s...
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