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    Seattle Computer Products (SCP) was a Tukwila, Washington, microcomputer hardware company which was one of the first manufacturers of computer systems...
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    operating system developed and marketed by Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for its Intel 8086-based computer kit. 86-DOS shared a few of its commands with...
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  • drives. According to user reports, it did not work very reliably. Seattle Computer Products (SCP) offered TRANS86.COM, written by Tim Paterson in 1980 while...
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  • shells and also in Microsoft BASIC. SYS is an external command of Seattle Computer Products 86-DOS, Microsoft MS-DOS, IBM PC DOS, Digital Research FlexOS...
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    of Seattle Computer Products. IBM rebranded the Microsoft version as PC-DOS. Critically, IBM did not prevent Microsoft from reselling the DOS product to...
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  • Sedory, Daniel B. "IBM Personal Computer DOS Version 1.00". 86-DOS sales agreement between Seattle Computer Products and Microsoft, dated 1981-07-27,...
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    Paul Allen (category Businesspeople from Seattle)
    Operating System) written by Tim Paterson who was employed at Seattle Computer Products. As a result of this transaction, Microsoft secured a contract...
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  • sampling synthesizer series, based on the MDOS (Motorola DOS) Seattle Computer Products QDOS, SCP's Quick and Dirty Operating System in 1980, later renamed...
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    Programmer's Manual (PDF). Version 0.3 (Preliminary ed.). Seattle, Washington, USA: Seattle Computer Products, Inc. 1980. pp. 7, 17. Archived from the original...
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    CP/M-86, UCSD p-System, and an in-house product called IBM PC DOS, based on 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products and provided by Microsoft. In practice...
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  • 68000-based computer in early 1983, and was the largest Unix vendor in 1984. Seattle Computer Products also made (PC-incompatible) 8086 computers bundled...
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    Research, Inc. to market and sell his software products. He is considered a pioneer of the personal computer revolution. In 1974 in Pacific Grove, California...
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    multitasking. Microsoft first licensed, then purchased 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products (SCP), which was modified for the IBM PC by Microsoft employee...
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  • Paterson's QDOS. A version of "Standalone Disk Basic" was ported to a Seattle Computer Products 8086 by Bob O'Rear, and Tim Paterson was often at Microsoft to...
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    degree in Computer Science in June 1978. He went to work for Seattle Computer Products as a designer and engineer. He designed the hardware of Microsoft's...
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  • Sudanese Communist Party Scottish Christian Party Seattle Computer Products, an American computer company Smyrne Cassaba & Prolongements, a defunct Ottoman...
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  • created 1980), an operating system developed by Seattle Computer Products for its 8086-based S-100 computer kit, heavily inspired by CP/M Concurrent DOS...
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    If you use two or more of our products, or if you want to share aliases and batch files with users of different products, you need to be aware of the differences...
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  • international sales and marketing. Microsoft entered an agreement with Seattle Computer Products to acquire marketing rights for 86-DOS, which had been built to...
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    Bill Gates (category Businesspeople from Seattle)
    86-DOS, an operating system similar to CP/M, that Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) had made for hardware similar to the PC. Microsoft made...
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    Z-80 SoftCard (category Computer-related introductions in 1980)
    porting Microsoft's computer-language products to the Apple II. The SoftCard was developed by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP). SCP built...
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    User's Manual (PDF). Version 0.3 (Preliminary ed.). Seattle, Washington, USA: Seattle Computer Products, Inc. 1980. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-14...
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    BASIC, MIDAS instead occupied 32 bytes per entry. Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) was first introduced to Microsoft's FAT structure when he...
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  • constitute personal computers (including desktop computers, portable computers, laptops, all-in-ones, and more), mainframe computers, minicomputers, servers...
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    was first implemented in 1980 by Tim Paterson and included in Seattle Computer Products 86-DOS. The command is available in MS-DOS versions 1 and later...
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  • by Douglas E. Comer in the United States 86-DOS (developed at Seattle Computer Products by Tim Paterson for the new Intel 808x CPUs; licensed to Microsoft...
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    Microsoft (category Computer companies established in 1975)
    in the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC). For this deal, Microsoft purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products which it branded as...
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  • Programmer's Manual (PDF). Version 0.3 (Preliminary ed.). Seattle, Washington, USA: Seattle Computer Products, Inc. 1980. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-06-23...
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    approached Seattle Computer Products. There, programmer Tim Paterson had developed a variant of CP/M-80, intended as an internal product for testing...
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  • This is a timeline of Microsoft, a multinational computer technology corporation. Alfred, Randy. "April 4, 1975: Bill Gates, Paul Allen Form a Little Partnership"...
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