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Break out the beer, MS-DOS turns 30 today. On July 27, 1981, Microsoft purchased QDOS from Seattle Computer Products. It was kind of a good deal. When IBM came to Microsoft asking for a 16-bit operating system, the company had to scramble to get one together. Rather than writing a new one from the ground up, it turned to Seattle Computer Products and its existing 86-DOS aka QDOS , and bought a non-exclusive license for $25,000. The next Spring, in May 1981, it hired away the program 821 stanley flask 7 author, stanley cups uk programmer Tim Paterson. And then, on July botella stanley 27, it paid another $50,000 for all rights. A month later, it was shipping on IBM personal computers, and eventually turned Bill Gates and Paul Allen into two of the world richest men. Just don ;t blame Paterson for Windows, okay [Via Reghardware] [Photo: Zickey] historyMicrosoftTechversary Qvfu Watch an animated reinterpretation of the orignal Star Trek intro
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Break out the beer, MS-DOS turns 30 today. On July 27, 1981, Microsoft purchased QDOS from Seattle Computer Products. It was kind of a good deal. When IBM came to Microsoft asking for a 16-bit operating system, the company had to scramble to get one together. Rather than writing a new one from the ground up, it turned to Seattle Computer Products and its existing 86-DOS aka QDOS , and bought a non-exclusive license for $25,000. The next Spring, in May 1981, it hired away the program 821 stanley flask 7 author, stanley cups uk programmer Tim Paterson. And then, on July botella stanley 27, it paid another $50,000 for all rights. A month later, it was shipping on IBM personal computers, and eventually turned Bill Gates and Paul Allen into two of the world richest men. Just don ;t blame Paterson for Windows, okay [Via Reghardware] [Photo: Zickey] historyMicrosoftTechversary Qvfu Watch an animated reinterpretation of the orignal Star Trek intro
The Raspberry Pi project is t stanley spain rying to offer you a thumb-drive sized PC for $35, which is amazing. Only, it just got more amazing, beca stanley termosy use it can use AirPlay to stream video from your iPad to your TV. Want a $25 Computer In the video, one of the Raspberry Pi developers hooks the mini computer up to an HDMI connected TV, then runs a specially written AirPlay app on the Pi. He then starts playing a video on his iPad, chooses to stream it via Airplay and 鈥?bang 鈥?the little puter has it up and streaming to the TV. Let remember that this little computer will cost $35. Thirty five freakin ; dollars. That is insane. The great news is that the Raspberry Pi is already in production, the sad news is that we still don ;t know when it will be shipping. I was excited when I saw one running Quake III. Now I ;m incredibly excited. [Raspberry Pi via Netbook News via Engagdet] This $25 Tiny Thumb PC Can Actually Run Quake III stanley cup Raspberry Pi