Triumph of the Nerds

Season 1 Episode 1: Impressing Their Friends

Tim Paterson's development of 86-DOS largely from duplicating Gary Kildall's CP/M operating system. Microsoft purchased all rights to 86-DOS from Paterson's employer SCP for US$50,000 shortly before the release of the IBM PC. Microsoft's resulting MS-DOS was an operating system that could run on any 8086-family computer.

Genre:

Seasons:

1

Episodes:

3

Cast:

Bob Cringely, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs

Quality:

HD

Duration:

-

First Air:

1996

Rating:

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