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$100,000 Prize if You Can Find This Secret Command in DOS
There have long been rumors that Microsoft copied CP/M to create MS-DOS for the IBM PC. Consultant Bob Zeidman in 2012 used forensic software tools to analyze the code for IEEE Spectrum, and found no evidence of copying, as he reported in Did Bill Gates Steal the Heart of DOS? Since he did that analysis, Microsoft donated previously unavailable source code for MS-DOS to the Computer History Museum. (Zeidman did his original analysis using QDOS.).
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