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No. Big Gates did not write any version of DOS. What Gates, with Paul Allen (and Monte Davidoff) wrote MS BASIC, as used in the ROMs of many early-1980s 8-bit
by lproven 4y ago
No. Big Gates did not write any version of DOS.
What Gates, with Paul Allen (and Monte Davidoff) wrote MS BASIC, as used in the ROMs of many early-1980s 8-bit computers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Davidoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Davidoff
They did not write DOS or Windows, nor did they claim that they did.
MS-DOS is based on SCP QDOS, AKA 86-DOS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS
It was written by Tim Paterson (one "t"):
https://github.com/TimPaterson https://github.com/TimPaterson
Note his excellent LinkedIn URL:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dosdaddy/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dosdaddy/
Microsoft licensed 86-DOS from SCP. It then licensed it to IBM but retained the rights to licence it to others as well, a very smart move.