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Tim Paterson wrote DOS

08-11-2007 11:49pm

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In 1980, Tim Paterson began working on a 16-bit OS for the 8086 S-100 Bus card he had designed for SCP (Seattle Computer Products) the previous year. To help in getting QDOS (later called 86-DOS) to work correctly, Tim created a debugger in a ROM chip; the code for that ROM version was released into the Public Domain. Later, Tim adapted the code to run as a .COM program under QDOS, and also added the ability to disassemble 8086 machine code. In the meantime, Microsoft® had been busy purchasing the rights to sell Tim's QDOS to IBM® for their 'secret' PC project. Tim was then hired by Microsoft as the primary author of their first OS. When he completed his work on IBM's Personal Computer™ DOS 1.00 in 1981, his DEBUG.COM utility was included with it. All the functionality that Tim put into DEBUG is still there and little has been added to it

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