gates-hastily-arranged-for-microsoft-to-buy-a-startup-working-on-an-operating-system-called-86-dos-or-disk-operating-system-it-renamed-the-software-to-pc-dos-and-sold-it-to-ibm-for-50000

gates-hastily-arranged-for-microsoft-to-buy-a-startup-working-on-an-operating-system-called-86-dos-or-disk-operating-system-it-renamed-the-software-to-pc-dos-and-sold-it-to-ibm-for-50000

it-was-in-1980-that-gates-would-break-out-as-a-business-superstar-when-ibm-needed-an-operating-system-for-its-forthcoming-pc-it-turned-to-microsoft
but-ibm-didnt-ask-for-the-copyright-to-the-software-and-gates-never-offered-it-meant-that-microsoft-was-free-to-sell-ms-dos-its-own-version-of-the-operating-system