Editing MS-DOS

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| image     = Logo-MSDOS.png
| developer = Microsoft Corporation
| publisher = Microsoft Corporation
| type      = Operating System Family
| ww_rel    = {{Release|1981|August||WW|PC}}
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'''''MS-DOS''''' (abbreviation for '''Microsoft Disk Operating System''') was a command-line driven operating system family sold as a standalone product in the 1980's and early 1990's, later evolving to be used as a platform on which to run a shell that would later be known as ''[[Microsoft Windows]]''. It would later be relegated to a support role in 32-bit editions of ''Microsoft Windows''. It was first developed as ''86-DOS'' by [[Tim Patterson]], with the first version released by Microsoft being marketed as MS-DOS 1.0 in August 1981, which was version 1.14 of ''86-DOS''.

In 1980, [[Microsoft]] then-head [[Bill Gates]] (known at the time for his creation of an interpreter for the [[BASIC]] computer programming language running on the MITS Altair 8800) was approached by [[IBM]] about an operating system for their computer boxes. [[Paul Allen]] contacted [[Tim Patterson]] of [[Seattle Computer Products]], and acquired the rights to sell his [[QDOS]] (''Quick and Dirty Operating System'') to an unnamed client - IBM - for under $100,000. Deals continued as the product was still under development at Seattle Computer Products; in 1981, Microsoft bought the full rights to the operating system, which they trademarked as ''MS-DOS''.

Legions of games were developed and marketed as being compatible with MS-DOS, and thus the platform is still fairly important, if somewhat ancient. Many of these games can run on [[FreeDOS]], or within [[DOSBox]]. The first release of ''MS-DOS'' by Microsoft 

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