MS-DOS, every mention
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The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 8:06 Ben Gilbert Before the IBM PC and before DOS, can you catch listeners up who weren't around at that time?
- ▶ 11:54 Ben Gilbert And so the licensing of Microsoft DOS, which didn't even exist when IBM approached you about licensing some things, is the single greatest business deal in history.
- ▶ 15:16 Ben Gilbert But what ended up happening after all these years, and I imagine it only took a few years to see it play out, was IBM sold a ton of IBM PCs, and DOS was the operating system.
- ▶ 15:30 Ben Gilbert And then everybody else adopted DOS because all the application makers, all the software vendors, were targeting DOS as the platform, and so Microsoft sort of accrued a huge amount of benefit.
- ▶ 16:43 Steve Ballmer There were plenty of people who ran MS-DOS who were actually not IBM compatible because they didn't do a compatible BIOS.
- ▶ 19:45 Ben Gilbert You end up shipping DOS.
- ▶ 31:49 David Rosenthal Not DOS.
- ▶ 31:50 Steve Ballmer Not DOS.
- ▶ 31:51 Steve Ballmer DOS was always sold to OEM.
- ▶ 33:53 Steve Ballmer And, you know, we had DOS and windows and whenever talking to Cutler about coming here, he says, I don't want to work any toy operating systems.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 50:01 David Rosenthal And to that point, there is no DOS yet.