Allen had 86-DOS adapted for IBM's hardware, and IBM shipped it as PC-DOS.

86-DOS had to be converted from 8-inch to 5. 25-inch floppy disks and integrated with the BIOS, which Microsoft was helping IBM to write.

After discussions with the small company Microsoft, IBM decided to use 86-DOS ( QDOS ), a CP / M-like operating system that a Seattle area computer company had made for its own hardware.

86-DOS ' command structure and application programming interface imitated that of CP / M.

Sams left Gates with the task of finding a usable operating system, and a few weeks later he proposed using the CP / M clone 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products ( SCP ).

Paterson designed 86-DOS with an API that was compatible with legacy CP / M programs.

Paterson insists that the 86-DOS software was his original work, and has denied referring to or otherwise using CP / M code while writing it.

** Tim Paterson's development of 86-DOS largely from duplicating Gary Kildall's CP / M operating system.

* In CP / M and subsequently in all versions of DOS ( 86-DOS, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, more ) and derivatives, $ is used as a string terminator ( Int 21h with AH = 09h ).

Instead, a deal was struck with Microsoft, who purchased another operating system, 86-DOS, from Seattle Computer Products.

86-DOS was an operating system developed and marketed by Seattle Computer Products ( SCP ) for its Intel 8086-based computer kit.

Initially known as QDOS ( Quick and Dirty Operating System ) the name was changed to 86-DOS once SCP started licensing the operating system.

86-DOS was created because sales of the Seattle Computer Products 8086 computer kit, demonstrated in June 1979 and shipped in November, were languishing due to the absence of an operating system.

The operating system was renamed to 86-DOS in December 1980.

The original was 86-DOS, which would later become Microsoft MS-DOS.

It was originally written for Seattle Computer Products's 86-DOS ( QDOS ), which Microsoft acquired and sold as MS-DOS.

When the IBM PC arrived in late 1981, it came with PC-DOS, which was developed from 86-DOS, which Microsoft acquired for this purpose.

Microsoft first licensed, then purchased 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products ( SCP ), which was modified for the IBM PC by Microsoft employee Bob O ' Rear with assistance from SCP ( later Microsoft ) employee Tim Paterson.

The most enduring element of 86-DOS was its primitive line editor, EDLIN, which remained the only editor supplied with Microsoft versions of DOS until the June 1991 release of MS-DOS 5. 0, which included a TUI-based editor, MS-DOS Editor based on QBasic.

Microsoft purchased a nonexclusive license for 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products in December 1980 for $ 25, 000.

In July 1981, a month before the PC's release, Microsoft purchased all rights to 86-DOS from SCP for $ 50, 000.

Microsoft purchased all rights to 86-DOS from Paterson's employer SCP for US $ 50, 000 shortly before the release of the IBM PC.

O ' Rear got 86-DOS to run on the prototype PC in February 1981.

86-DOS was rebranded IBM PC DOS 1. 0 for its August 1981 release with the IBM PC.

Microsoft bought 86-DOS, adapted it for computers using the Intel 8086 and 8088 processors, and called it MS-DOS ; IBM sold it for the IBM PC as PC DOS.

In later discussions between IBM and Bill Gates, Gates mentioned the existence of 86-DOS and IBM representative Jack Sams told him to get a license for it.

Microsoft licensed 86-DOS to IBM, and it became PC DOS 1. 0.

A proper cavalry command in his front would have developed the fact that he had run into one division of Polk's Army of the Mississippi moving up from the direction of Mobile to join Johnston at Dalton.

In any event, the critical productivity of that time is abundant proof that if he was taking laudanum, it was never in command of him to the extent that it had been during his vagrant years.

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When they stood about his tent, chaffing each other, exchanging their obscenities, cursing command or weather, he had studied their faces.

In 1864 Newman professedly had to write his Apologia with his keenest feelings in order to be believed and to command a fair hearing from English readers.

Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, who had been initially in command in Tennessee as that State's top general.

On March 29, 1862, Johnston officially took command of this combined force, which continued to use the Army of the Mississippi name under which it had been organized by Beauregard on March 5.

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At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

Saxon raids on the southern and eastern shores of England had been sufficiently alarming by the late 3rd century for the Romans to build the Saxon Shore forts, and subsequently to establish the role of the Count of the Saxon Shore to command the defence against these incursions.

In 1693 Morosini resumed command, but his only acts were to refortify the castle of Aegina, which he had demolished during the Cretan war in 1655, the cost of upkeep being paid as long as the war lasted, by the Athenians, and to place it and Salamis under Malipiero as Governor.

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Both Brooke and Alexander were astonished by the transformation in atmosphere when they visited on 19 August, less than a week after Montgomery had taken command.

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Bibulus, whom Pompey had appointed to command his 600-ship fleet, set up a massive blockade to prevent Caesar from crossing to Greece and to prevent any aid to Italy.

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