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• n  an operating system developed by Bill Gates for personal computers

• We didn't make money on ms-dos in its first release.
• When the company faltered after Micro-soft's ms-dos operating system swept the world, Hauser went on to become vice president of research at Olivetti, establishing a global network .
• A case in point, says Arthur, is ms-dos.

• MS-DOS
• Microsoft disk operating system

News & Articles

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• Six great analog communication tricks
  Lately I’ve been feeling ashamed and mortified by my digital incompetence, which I won’t belabor other than to say that I started to run into trouble around the time that MS-DOS came on the market. I’m still trying to memorize my Compuserve email address. I haven’t been fully comfortable with computers since Radio Shack stopped […]        
  Oct. 15, 2013 - Washington Post

Quotes

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• Paul Maritz in PR Web (press release)
  Paul Maritz, former Microsoft group vice president, said, "Mark has been a key developer and architect over the past 20 years on the entire family of Microsoft operating systems from MS-DOS to Windows NT. He has the perspective and experience to be...
• Eugene Kaspersky in CNET News.com
  They probably made a mistake--the same mistake they made in 1991,said Kaspersky. "In 1991, they released MS-DOS version 4.0, and it was not so light as version 3.0--it took up more resources, which meant less memory for user apps. (When)...