DOS
product on 9 shows · 7 statements across 4 episodes · said 16 times in 13 episodes since 2019
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Acharya: AI is in its DOS era and needs a Windows equivalent
“Command Line is, we're sort of in the DOS era of AI, and for this technology and its capabilities to sort of fully be embraced by consumers, we're going to need the windows, so to say.”
Oji Udezue: Chat interfaces are the MS-DOS of AI user experiences
“We don't believe the chat interface is the final boss for AI user experience. We think that there's a reason yours exists and the command line didn't work. Otherwise DOS will be the biggest operating system.”
Kennedy: Save Our Allies operates with U.S. DOD and DOS support
“If you think that I can walk into Afghanistan during the middle of the evacuation without DOD and DOS support, like, you're an, you're a crazy person. If you think that we're going to be in Djibouti or Sudan during a coup, like, you're a crazy person without t…”
All Windows operating systems released prior to Windows 95 were DOS-based
“Until Windows 95, all of the Windows operating systems were DOS based.”
IBM paid Microsoft a $430,000 fixed fee for DOS with no royalties
“IBM paid Microsoft 75,000 dollars for testing and consultation. 45,000 dollars for DOS. 45. And 310,000 dollars for an array of sixteen-bit language interpreters and compilers. So all told, bundled together, that is 430,000 dollars fixed that IBM paid Microsof…”
Microsoft retained full non-exclusive licensing rights to DOS from IBM
“Microsoft retained the rights To own DOS and to own their languages and license it and them to anyone else they wanted at any price on any terms.”