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American computer scientist and inventor of CP/M — the dominant microcomputer operating system before DOS — who famously missed or avoided the meeting with IBM that Microsoft attended instead, costing him the PC era.
American personal computer company that created QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) — which Microsoft purchased for $50,000, renamed MS-DOS, and licensed to IBM — making Seattle Computer Products the unknowing originator of the operating system that made Microsoft dominant.