Today I learned on Nostr: TIL that when IBM tasked Bill Gates with the creation of a OS for their computer ...

TIL that when IBM tasked Bill Gates with the creation of a OS for their computer Gates didn't have one nor he knew how to make one, so he bought one (DOS) from a local company for $75k, hired an engineer to adapt it to IBM machines and sold it for millions to IBM without ever writing a line of code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
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