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Operating System Central Authority
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Ms Dos History Of Operating Systems
2,087 wordsAbstract: MS-DOS was the dominant PC operating system before the introduction of Windows. DOS was originally based on a cloned version of CP/M created by Seattle Computer which Microsoft secured, modified and offered to IBM for use in the first PC. IBM gave early PC users a choice of PC DOS, CP/M or UCSD Pascal, but everyone chose DOS because it was far cheaper. IBM coded the kernel of BASIC into its copyrighted ROM, which also included the BIOS, and designed the system so that only its machines...
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Hall Of Fame Bell Labs
799 wordsOverview While at AT& T Bell Laboratories, Dennis Ritchie, along with Ken Thompson, developed the UNIX computer operating system for minicomputers. He later developed the programming language called C, which has become a virtual standard in the microcomputer / workstation marketplace. Dennis Ritchie was born on Sept. 9, 1941 in Bronxville, New York. After doing undergraduate and graduate work in physics and applied mathematics at Harvard University, Ritchie joined Bell Labs in 1968. In the m...
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