MS-DOS, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where MS-DOS comes up
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 58:56 David Senra It says, Bill and I were willing to forego per copy royalties if we could freely license the DOS software to other manufacturers. 3 times in the scene
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 18:26 David Senra They chose DOS for Microsoft and Intel, uh, they were such a huge and powerful company, such an American institution.
The Biography of Bill Gates
- ▶ 0:53 David Senra In 1980, the company had sold the MS-DOS operating system to IBM.
- ▶ 31:37 David Senra By 1991, Microsoft was making more than two hundred million a year just from sales of MS-DOS.
- ▶ 32:21 David Senra A new version of DOS was already in the works.
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 59:02 David Senra Where would Microsoft be if IBM insisted on an exclusive license for DOS?