50 years of PC operating system
In mentionned the end of the Z80 production, as well as the open sourcing of MS-DOS 4.0.
Last week, The Computer History Museum published Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System:
PC software pioneer Gary Kildall demonstrated CP/M, the first commercially successful personal computer operating system in Pacific Grove, California, in 1974.
Digital Research1 was first, but Bill Gates got a better deal from IBM, making Microsoft the behemoth it has become.
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Not to be confused with Digital Equipment Coporation, also known as Digital. No relation. ↩︎