{"id":199,"date":"2026-04-16T14:42:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/?p=199"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:42:21","slug":"who-wrote-dos-and-how-did-bill-gates-acquire-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahed.org\/news\/2026\/04\/16\/who-wrote-dos-and-how-did-bill-gates-acquire-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Who wrote DOS and how did Bill Gates acquire it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who wrote DOS, and how did Bill Gates acquire it?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Bill Gates built a global monopoly on an operating system he didn’t write. The foundation of Microsoft’s empire was actually coded by a 24-year-old named Tim Paterson.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1980, Paterson worked for a small hardware company called Seattle Computer Products (SCP). SCP had developed a new microcomputer based on Intel\u2019s cutting-edge 8086 chip, but they had a major problem: they lacked an operating system to run on it. The industry standard at the time was CP\/M, built by Gary Kildall\u2019s company Digital Research, but the 16-bit version (CP\/M-86) was severely delayed. Frustrated by the wait, Paterson spent four months writing his own stopgap solution. He called it QDOS\u2014the “Quick and Dirty Operating System”\u2014which was later renamed 86-DOS. Paterson deliberately designed it to mimic CP\/M’s application programming interface so developers could easily port their existing software over.<\/p>\n

Around the same time, IBM was rushing to build its first personal computer in complete secrecy. They approached Microsoft, a small software firm at the time, for programming languages like BASIC. When IBM asked for an operating system, Gates initially directed them to Digital Research. However, negotiations between IBM and Digital Research broke down over strict non-disclosure agreements and licensing disputes. Desperate for a solution to meet their aggressive timeline, IBM returned to Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Gates and his co-founder Paul Allen realized they had an opportunity to secure a massive partnership, but they needed an operating system fast. Allen knew about Paterson\u2019s 86-DOS just down the street in Seattle. In late 1980, Microsoft brokered a deal with SCP to license 86-DOS for $25,000. Then, in July 1981, just weeks before the IBM PC was set to launch, Microsoft purchased the full intellectual property rights to 86-DOS for an additional $50,000.<\/p>\n

Seattle Computer Products had no idea that Microsoft’s unnamed client was the computing giant IBM. By securing the full rights for a mere $75,000, Gates pulled off one of the most lucrative business moves in history. Crucially, Microsoft did not sell the operating system to IBM outright. Instead, they licensed it as PC-DOS for IBM machines while retaining the rights to sell it to other hardware manufacturers as MS-DOS. When IBM PC clones eventually flooded the market, almost all of them needed a copy of MS-DOS, establishing Microsoft’s software dominance for decades to come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

SHORT STORIES<\/span><\/h1>\n

Young ladies, this is for you!!! \ud83e\udd17<\/p>\n

A woman arrived in a store wearing clothes that showed her body all too well. The shop owner, being a wise older man, took a good look at her, asked her to sit down, looked straight into her eyes, and said something she would never forget for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYoung Lady, everything that God has made valuable in this world, is covered up and hard to see or find.”<\/p>\n

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1. Where can you find diamonds?<\/p>\n

\u2022 In the ground, covered and protected.<\/p>\n

2. Where are the pearls?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Deep in the ocean, covered and protected in a beautiful shell.<\/p>\n

3. Where can you find gold?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Underground, covered with layers of rock, and to get there you have to work very hard and dig deep.<\/p>\n

He looked at her again and said, “Your body is sacred and unique to God.”<\/p>\n

You are far more precious than gold, diamonds, and pearls, therefore you must be covered too.<\/p>\n

He then added: “If you keep your precious minerals like gold, diamonds, and pearls deeply covered, a \u201creputable mining organization\u201d with the necessary machines, will work for years to mine those precious goods.<\/p>\n

* First, they will contact your government (family),<\/p>\n

* Second, sign professional contracts (marriage),<\/p>\n

* Third, they will professionally extract those goods, and tenderly refine those precious goods. (marital life).<\/p>\n

But if you let your minerals find themselves on top of the Earth’s surface (exposed to everyone), you will always attract many illegal miners to come, exploit, illegally, and freely take those riches and leave you without the precious goods God gave you!<\/p>\n

WOMEN, YOU ARE VALUABLE!! \u2764<\/p>\n

Remember – Class is more desirable than Trash.<\/p>\n

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JOKE<\/span><\/h1>\n
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A cowboy walks into a bar and takes a seat next to a very attractive woman.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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He gives her a quick glance and then causally looks at his watch for a moment.<\/p>\n

The woman notices this and asks, “Is your date running late?”<\/p>\n

“No”, he replies, “I just got this state-of-the-art watch, and I was just testing it..”<\/p>\n

The intrigued woman says, “A state-of-the-art watch? What”s so special about it?”<\/p>\n

The cowboy explains, “It uses alpha waves to talk to me telepathically.”<\/p>\n

The lady says, “What”s it telling you now?”<\/p>\n

Well, it says you’re not wearing any panties.”<\/p>\n

The woman giggles and replies “Well it must be broken because I am wearing panties!”<\/p>\n

The cowboy smiles, taps his watch, and says, “Damn thing’s an hour fast.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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HYPOCRACY\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

Look at the hypocrisy of European historians. According to them, Emperor Alexander is great, and Genghis Khan is not great, but cruel.<\/p>\n

Similarly, India’s upper-caste historians are bent on defaming the great Emperor Ashoka by calling him “Chanda Ashoka” and a cruel ruler.<\/p>\n

The West considers Alexander a hero, and Genghis Khan a villain.<\/p>\n

In 332 BC, Alexander’s army laid siege to the city of Tyre in Lebanon. After conquering the city, Alexander crucified 2,000 people alive.<\/p>\n

Alexander fought 20 wars in his lifetime. He killed millions of people. Alexander’s army raped women and girls.<\/p>\n

Genghis Khan’s army did the same. Every king wanted to expand his territory and expand his empire. No land could be conquered without war and bloodshed.<\/p>\n

So how could Alexander the Great or Genghis Khan be cruel?<\/p>\n

Emperor Ashoka also expanded India’s borders by fighting wars. He fought against Kalinga, and millions must have died. If there is a war, people will die, on both sides.<\/p>\n

The RSS and Manuwadi historians are defaming the great Emperor Ashoka, the foundation of this one war.<\/p>\n

Emperor Ashoka represents the Buddhist civilization. He is the greatest ruler of the Buddhist era. Unified India is his contribution.<\/p>\n

Historians from Europe, America, China, and the Arab world call Emperor Ashoka the Priyadarshini Chakravarti Emperor Ashoka the Great.<\/p>\n

Photo: Roman soldiers forcibly abducting a woman.<\/p>\n

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KILLER MOTHER\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

In February 1775, a Danish woman killed her four-month-old baby. When the authorities found her with the dead child, she said that she would gladly die for her crime.<\/p>\n

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Why did such a thing happen?<\/p>\n

Because at that time, murder was more forgivable than suicide.<\/p>\n

Crimes like this were part of a wave of suicide-murders in the 17th and 18th centuries .<\/p>\n

This wave had swept across much of Europe, but in Denmark these strange crimes happened with particular frequency.<\/p>\n

In the 18th century, there were one and a half suicide murders per 100,000 inhabitants in Copenhagen. In Stockholm, there were 0.6 to 0.8 cases per 100,000 citizens – and in Hamburg, 0.4 to 0.5.<\/p>\n

Crazy as it may sound, people committed murders just to be executed. They found out beforehand exactly what crimes were punishable by death to make sure they would be killed.<\/p>\n

At that time, suicide was not only a crime, but also meant that the soul was eternally condemned to hell.<\/p>\n

Murderers, on the other hand, if they deeply repented of their crime, went straight to heaven And they were truly revered.<\/p>\n

Martin Luther had interpreted the forgiveness of sins in this way. If someone repented at the last moment of his life, all would be forgiven and he would die pure and untainted by sin.<\/p>\n

Potential suicides were afraid of killing themselves and therefore committed capital crimes punishable by death.<\/p>\n

Unlike the suspected suicides, these murderers were completely open about their crime.<\/p>\n

One man even sang on his way to the gallows because he was so happy he was about to die.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the courts noticed that something was wrong and increased the sentence.<\/p>\n

In Denmark, they began sentencing suicide murderers to an additional nine weeks of flogging before execution.<\/p>\n

When the day of execution arrived, the executioner would smash as many of the condemned’s bones as possible with a large wheel.<\/p>\n

Then the person was hanged from it until he finally died from his injuries.<\/p>\n

This is how the military courts did it.<\/p>\n

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The civil courts were almost exactly brutal.<\/p>\n

Suicide murderers were maltreated several times with hot irons as they went to their execution.<\/p>\n

Their hands were chopped off first, and finally their heads.<\/p>\n

Then they put the body on a wheel and displayed it in front of the crowd.<\/p>\n

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This did not help to deter the delinquents.<\/p>\n

The torment would secure their place in the kingdom of heaven all the more, it was believed.<\/p>\n

It was not until 1767 that Denmark was able to put a stop to this bizarre going by simply abolishing the death penalty for suicide murderers.<\/p>\n

They now had to work hard and humiliatingly for the rest of their lives and were whipped from time to time.<\/p>\n

Other Protestant countries imitated Denmark.<\/p>\n

Not all of them, oddly enough.<\/p>\n

People tired of life still murder today to gain a death sentence that way.<\/p>\n

This happens again and again in the USA.<\/p>\n

Murderers voluntarily agree to their execution and even want to speed up the execution.<\/p>\n

There are no statistics on this, but researchers assume that at least 20 of the more than 400 executed people since 1976 have murdered in order to commit suicide.<\/p>\n

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A famous suicide murderer was Gary Gilmore.<\/p>\n

He was the first to be executed after the death penalty was reinstated.<\/p>\n

He fought with his lawyer to be killed by a firing squad.<\/p>\n

“Let’s do it!” were his last words and they are still often quoted today.<\/p>\n

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English ist not my mother tongue, pardon my mistakes.<\/p>\n

Please do not translate my answers, because i do it by myself.<\/p>\n

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SECOND WORLD WAR AND CONSEQUENCES\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

“I was a Nazi and I remain one. Today’s Germany is no longer a great nation, becoming a province of Europe. That’s why, at the first opportunity, I will settle in France.”<\/p>\n

1967 interview with Peiper.<\/p>\n

Joachim Peiper was born in 1915 to a middle-class German family in the Silesian region. When he turned 18, he joined the Hitler Youth and volunteered for the SS. In 1938, he was appointed Himmler’s adjutant, becoming one of his most trusted aides.<\/p>\n

During the Second World War, he participated in the Polish campaign, receiving numerous commendations. In 1943, he went to Italy, and his unit was responsible for the Boves massacre, where 32 civilians were killed in reprisal. He then returned to the Eastern Front and the Ardennes. On December 17, 1944, his unit was responsible for the killing of an unknown number of 72 to 84 American prisoners of war, a massacre that went down in history as the “Malm\u00e9dy Massacre.”<\/p>\n

After the war, he was tried and sentenced to death by hanging, but the sentence was commuted to 10 years in prison (in my opinion because he traded his life for important information).<\/p>\n

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After his release from prison, he worked for Porsche and Volkswagen.<\/p>\n

In 1968, a German court charged him with killing Italian civilians, but the following year the cohort ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict him.<\/p>\n

In 1971, he moved to Treves, France, and enjoyed cordial relations with his fellow villagers. But after a few years, rumors spread that a Nazi criminal was living in the town. A few months later, his home caught fire, and Peiper’s body was found burned alive.<\/p>\n

Despite being a proud Nazi and proudly carrying out even the most horrific orders, did this man deserve the death penalty carried out in such a manner?<\/p>\n

Sources from the book: “Joachim Peiper. A Life Under Accusation” by Ernesto Zucconi.<\/p>\n

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AEROPLANE STORY\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n
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A man boarded an airplane and took his seat. As he settled in, he glanced up and saw the most beautiful woman boarding the plane. He soon realized She was heading straight towards his seat. As fate would have it, she took the seat right beside his:<\/p>\n

Eager to strike up a conversation he blurted out. “Business trip or pleasure?”<\/p>\n

She turned, smiled and said. “Business. I\u2019m going to the Annual Nymphomaniacs of America Convention in Boston.”<\/p>\n

He swallowed hard. Here was the most gorgeous woman he had ever seen Sitting next to him and she was going to a meeting of nymphomaniacs!<\/p>\n

Struggling to maintain his composure, he calmly asked. \u201cWhat\u2019s your Business at this convention?”<\/p>\n

\u201cLecturer.” She responded. “I use information that I have learned from my Personal experiences to debunk some of the popular myths about sexuality.”<\/p>\n

\u201cReally?\u201d He said. \u201cAnd what kind of myths are there?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell.\u201d She explained. \u201cOne popular myth is that African-American men are The most well-endowed of all men, when in fact it is the Native American Indian who is most likely to possess that trait. Another popular myth is That Frenchmen are the best lovers, when actually it is men of Mexican Descent who are the best. I have also discovered that the lover with Absolutely the best stamina is the Southern Redneck.”<\/p>\n

Suddenly the woman became a little uncomfortable and blushed.. “I\u2019m Sorry.” She said, \u201cI shouldn’t really be discussing all of this with you. I don\u2019t even know your name.”<\/p>\n

“Tonto.” The man said. “Tonto Gonzales, but my friends call me Bubba.” ………..<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Polish-Russian Lt. Col. Karl Rjepetsky<\/span><\/h1>\n

1. The well-preserved remains of Polish-Russian Lt. Col. Karl Rjepetsky, discovered in Ardahan, Turkey, 123 years after his death (1894).<\/p>\n

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2. The shortest physics paper ever published<\/p>\n

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Her Hair Still Braided- Auschwitz, Poland, 1944.<\/span><\/h1>\n

A nurse witnessed something she would never forget when Soviet soldiers came to the destroyed camp of Auschwitz. She stumbled over a pile of small shoes, and there was the body of a little girl, which had only recently died.<\/p>\n

But what she saw, was not simply what moved her–it was something simple.<\/p>\n

The hair of the child was still well twisted. It was clean and neat, like her mother had done it with love that very morning.<\/p>\n

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There was no name. No family. Who will be her spokesperson? Only the braid was left behind.<\/p>\n

The nurse replied, she was loved till the very end.<\/p>\n

One of the braids was kept and preserved. It is nowadays kept at Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, to silently remind us that even in the darkest corners there can be love.<\/p>\n

Appreciate an upvote if you find it helpful and informative.<\/p>\n

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Married to a Secret: The Devastating Reality of Un-disclosed Sexual Orientation<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sex satisfaction is very important for a woman, this satisfaction is not just a pleasure, but also a reason to connect her emotionally with her husband. This story is of a girl from middle class family, whose life is suddenly a twist after marriage Came on, something she never thought of. At 24, when dad was about to retire from his job, he thought his daughter would get married sooner. Meanwhile, a boy named Shashank came into a relationship, who was with a funny family. Shashank was smart and decent, and everyone loved his relationship.<\/p>\n

After marriage, the girl had many desires towards Shashank. She was looking for happiness and love in her married life like every girl. But, the post-wedding behavior was different from Shashank. Instead of having physical relations, Shashank used to pretend to be tired and avoided interacting every time.<\/p>\n

When the girl questioned this behavior, Shashank revealed that she is not interested in girls, but he is gay and attracted to boys. The ground slipped under the girl’s feet after hearing this. It was a big shock for her, because she never discussed this topic before marriage.<\/p>\n

Three years of marriage have passed, and the girl is still tied to honor her family. She decided to save her parents’ dignity instead of divorce, but during this time she is kneeling inside.<\/p>\n

This story gives an important message that it is necessary in today’s time to discuss sexual desires and relationship expectations before marriage. So that no one will face such problems in the future, and both partners be honest to each other.<\/p>\n

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What were some of the myths or misconceptions about firearms among knights and the Church during the 16th century?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A relatively modestly equipped infantryman could kill an armored noble from a distance\u2014and many elites still dismissed firearms as vulgar, ungodly, or a passing fad.<\/p>\n

A few recurring myths stand out.<\/p>\n

1. \u201cFirearms are cowardly and unchivalric, so they won\u2019t matter much\u201d<\/p>\n

This was a very common aristocratic attitude in the late medieval and early modern world. Mounted nobles had built an entire social order around the idea that battlefield superiority came from lineage, training, expensive armor, and personal courage.<\/p>\n

Handguns and arquebuses disrupted that logic. A relatively modestly equipped infantryman could wound or kill an armored noble from a distance. That felt morally offensive to many knightly elites, who described guns as dishonorable or fit for lesser men.<\/p>\n

The misconception was thinking that social contempt could prevent military adoption. It could not. States cared far more about effectiveness than chivalric aesthetics.<\/p>\n

2. \u201cGood armor will remain proof against guns\u201d<\/p>\n

Early firearms were inconsistent, slow, and often inaccurate. Because of that, some nobles assumed gunpowder weapons were overrated and that improved plate armor would keep cavalry dominant.<\/p>\n

For a time, armor\u00a0did\u00a0adapt. \u201cProofed\u201d breastplates were even tested against pistol or arquebus shot, leaving the famous dent called a proof mark. But this encouraged a false sense that protection could keep pace indefinitely. Over the 16th century, firearms became more practical, more numerous, and tactically more important, while heavier armor imposed serious costs in mobility and endurance.<\/p>\n

So the myth was not that armor was useless immediately; it was the belief that armor would remain the decisive answer.<\/p>\n

3. \u201cFirearms require no skill\u201d<\/p>\n

This complaint appears often in aristocratic rhetoric. Compared with the long training required for mounted combat, swordsmanship, or the longbow, a gun seemed to let an inferior man kill a superior one too easily.<\/p>\n

That was only partly true. A 16th-century arquebusier still needed drill, nerve, timing, formation discipline, maintenance skills, and experience handling powder in terrible weather under battlefield stress. Firearms reduced the\u00a0social exclusivity\u00a0of battlefield lethality more than they eliminated skill.<\/p>\n

4. \u201cThe Church condemned firearms as inherently sinful\u201d<\/p>\n

This is often exaggerated. People sometimes point to medieval Church condemnations of certain missile weapons, especially the crossbow, and then assume a sweeping religious ban on guns followed naturally.<\/p>\n

In practice, the Church did not permanently prohibit firearms as such. Clergymen and moral writers certainly condemned cruelty, treachery, assassination, and the horrors of war, and some writers treated guns as especially diabolical because of the noise, smoke, fire, and mutilation they caused. But Catholic powers used artillery and small arms constantly. Popes employed gunpowder weapons too. Whatever moral unease existed, it did not amount to a lasting operational rejection.<\/p>\n

5. \u201cGunpowder weapons are a temporary fad\u201d<\/p>\n

This was perhaps the deepest error. Firearms were sometimes judged by early handguns alone: slow to reload, weather-sensitive, and not always decisive. Critics saw clumsy tools beside the lance, pike, bow, or sword.<\/p>\n

What they missed was the larger system:<\/p>\n