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Impressing Their Friends

Tim Paterson's development of 86-DOS largely from duplicating Gary Kildall's CP/M operating system. Microsoft purchased all rights to 86-DOS from Paterson's employer SCP for US$50,000 shortly before the release of the IBM PC. Microsoft's resulting MS-DOS was an operating system that could run on any 8086-family computer.

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  • Originally Aired June 12, 1996
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Production Code 1
  • Network PBS
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Name Type Role
Robert X. Cringely Writer
Steve Wozniak Guest Star
Robert Cringely Guest Star
Bill Gates Guest Star
Steve Jobs Guest Star
Paul Sen Director