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To: Chuck Bleakney who wrote (470)	6/14/1998 1:36:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (2) of 2025

Chuck and all, " A BRIEF HISTORY OF WINDOWS" Published Sunday, June 14, 1998, in the San Jose Mercury News mercurycenter.com first paragraph: > 1980 -- Mighty International Business Machines Corp., then the dominant company in computing, asks a small, unknown outfit named Microsoft Corp. to provide an operating system for the original IBM PC. Microsoft founder Bill Gates buys something called QDOS, short for ''Quick and Dirty Operating System,'' from another Seattle-area software company and reworks it into MS-DOS, short for ''Microsoft Disk Operating System.'' MS-DOS works with a ''command-line interface,'' in which users tell the computer what to do by typing hard-to-remember command abbreviations. For some reason -- perhaps because it didn't believe the PC market would ever be large and important -- IBM lets Microsoft license MS-DOS to other computer makers. And thus an empire is born.< GM

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