QDOS, every mention
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Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:43:37 David Rosenthal Despite being named Seattle Computer Products, I think this company was actually based in Taquilla, Washington, a programmer named Tim Patterson had just written a sixteen-bit operating system for the eighty-eighty-six that Intel had just…
- ▶ 1:45:07 David Rosenthal They get in touch with him, and they say, hey, can we license QDOS from you and Tim?
- ▶ 1:45:17 David Rosenthal So they work out a deal whereby Microsoft pays Seattle Computer Products 25,000 dollars for the rights to adapt and sell QDOS to the one unnamed
- ▶ 1:45:56 David Rosenthal 86 QDOS, sell and license it to anybody else indefinitely.
- ▶ 1:47:23 Ben Gilbert Also, David, I gotta say, I just looked it up, the address of Seattle Computer Products on the original business card for Seattle Computer Products, where I presume QDOS was written, the space is available, so I know where, uh, our next…
- ▶ 1:47:58 David Rosenthal Okay, so now they've got the operating system, they've got QDOS, or DOS, in place to license to IBM.