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According to Tim Paterson's blog and Paul Allen autobiography, MS bought SCP's QDOS on 1981 July 27 (MS had a non-exclusive license for QDOS to sell to OEMs). T
by canucker2016 1y ago
According to Tim Paterson's blog and Paul Allen autobiography, MS bought SCP's QDOS on 1981 July 27 (MS had a non-exclusive license for QDOS to sell to OEMs). This is before the IBM PC release in August.
see https://web.archive.org/web/20190722012644/http://www.patersontech.com/dos/softalk.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20190722012644/http://www.paters...
- lproven 1y agoThat was the year after MS initially licensed it. MS did buy it eventually, but not immediately.
- canucker2016 1y agoMS bought SCP's QDOS less than one year after IBM came to them to discuss software for the IBM PC. source - Paul Allen's autobio, Tim Paterson's blog entry.
- lproven 1y agoConceded, OK. It wasn't a hit yet: it was before the PC's launch. Even so, the point remains: it didn't buy it at first.