July 27, 1981,Bill Gates made one of the important purchases in the software giant’s storied history. About two weeks before IBM begins shipping the first IBM PC, Microsoft buys the full rights to the operating system 86-DOS, formerly known as QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System).That OS would later become known as MS-DOS.
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