QDOS was an operating system developed and marketed by Seattle Computer Products for its Intel 8086-based computer kit. Once SCP started licensing the operating system in 1980, the name was changed to 86-DOS.
Qdos Entertainment was created in 1986.
QDOS was a subset of CP/M, then Microsoft bought QDOS and made it MS-DOS. FOXTROT!
QDOS was developed by Tim Paterson. Microsoft bought the source and rights from him, and developed it further to create PC-DOS, which they licensed to IBM. They later licensed it to other companies branded as "MS-DOS."
Quick and Dirty Oprating System
Tim Patters
qdos (quick dirty operating system) was created by seattle computing Microsoft bought qdos and created ibm-dos and dos 1.0 while trying to mimic the company cp/m or something to that degree. some or most people that i know would say he stole it even though he payed 50,000$ for the rights to qdos.
QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System)
Tim Paterson was the original developer of QDOS, the system that Microsoft purchased and developed further into MS-DOS.
Previous answer: 1981 My answer: MS DOS was bought as QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System). Bill Gates personally oversaw the reprogramming of QDOS. DOS was not actually created by Microsoft. It was created by Seattle Computer Products and called QDOS. Microsoft later bought the rights to the software.
Not who you think. Acutally a man by the name of Tim Patterson had an operating called QDOS. Bill Gates bought it from him for use on the IBM http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa033099.htm
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