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The original system developed by the company that became known as Microsoft was a Basic Interpreter for the Altair microcomputer. This single language operating system was sold as Altair Basic.

They next developed a version of unix licensed from AT&T called Xenix.

Microsoft later purchased a dos like system, renamed it MS-DOS and licensed it to IBM for the IBM PC as PC-DOS. The name "DOS" was generic and existed on many computer systems at the time that had a Disk based Operating System.

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