yeah, ms bought qdos from seattle computer products for $50,000 in 1981, and re-named it ms-dos unbeknownst to scp, ms had inked a deal with ibm to exclusively license an os for all of their new pcs. these pcs would then be cloned by the likes of compaq and hewlett-packard, all of which ran dos and subsequently windows which was based off dos.
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