{"id":10444,"date":"2011-07-27T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10444"},"modified":"2011-07-27T07:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T11:25:00","slug":"ms-dos-at-thirty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/27\/ms-dos-at-thirty\/","title":{"rendered":"MS-DOS at thirty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was indeed, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reghardware.com\/2011\/07\/27\/ms_dos_turns_30\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Register<\/em><\/a>, thirty years ago that MS-DOS hit the market:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>MS-DOS is 30 years old today. Well, kind of. On 27 July 1981, Microsoft gave the name MS-DOS to the disk operating system it acquired on that day from Seattle Computer Products (SCP), a hardware company owned and run by a fellow called Rod Brock.<\/p>\n<p>SCP developed what it at various times called QDOS and 86-DOS to run on a CPU card it had built based on Intel&#8217;s 8086 processor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was indeed, according to The Register, thirty years ago that MS-DOS hit the market: MS-DOS is 30 years old today. Well, kind of. On 27 July 1981, Microsoft gave the name MS-DOS to the disk operating system it acquired on that day from Seattle Computer Products (SCP), a hardware company owned and run by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[109,94,92],"class_list":["post-10444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-microsoft","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Is","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10445,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions\/10445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}