Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Shamwari dzouhwana Bill Gates naPaul Allen vakatsvaka kuita bhizimisi vachishandisa unyanzvi hwavo hwokugadzira mapurogiramu ekombiyuta. Muna 1972 vakatanga kambani yavo yokutanga, yainzi Traf-O-Data, iyo yaitengesa kombiyuta duku yaikwanisa kuongorora uye kuongorora mashoko omumigwagwa. Apo Gates akanyoresa paHarvard, Allen akatevera dhigirii mumakombiyuta sayenzi paWashington State University, kunyange zvazvo gare gare akasiya chikoro kuti ashande paHoneywell. Nyaya yaJanuary 1975 yePopular Electronics yakaratidza Micro Instrumentation uye Telemetry Systems's (MITS) Altair 8800 microcomputer, iyo yakafuridzira Allen kuti ataure kuti vaigona kuronga BASIC muturikiri wechigadzirwa. Pashure pokufonerwa naGates achitaura kuti aiva nomuturikiri aishanda, MITS yakakumbira kuratidzwa. Sezvo vakanga vasati vava neimwe, Allen akashanda pane simulator yeAltair apo Gates akagadzira muturikiri. Kunyange zvazvo vakagadzira mududziri pane simulator uye kwete mudziyo chaiwoiwo, wakashanda zvisina mhosho apo vakaratidzira mududziri muna March 1975 kuMITS muAlbuquerque, New Mexico. MITS yakabvuma kuigovera, ichiitengesa seAltair BASIC. Gates naAllen vakasimbisa zviri pamutemo Microsoft musi waApril 4, 1975, naGates sa CEO. Zita rokutanga rokuti "Micro-Soft" (short for microcomputer software) rakataurwa naAllen. Muna August 1977 kambani yakaumba chibvumirano neASCII Magazine muJapan, zvichiita kuti hofisi yayo yokutanga yepasi rose, "ASCII Microsoft". Microsoft yakatamisa dzimbahwe rayo kuBellevue, Washington muna Ndira 1979.Microsoft yakapinda mubhizinesi rekushandisa (OS) muna 1980 neshanduro yayo yeUnix, inonzi Xenix. Zvisinei, MS-DOS ndiyo yakasimbisa kutonga kwekambani. Mushure mokunge nhaurirano neDigital Research dzakakundikana, IBM yakapa chibvumirano kuMicrosoft munaNovember 1980 kuti ipe shanduro yeCP / M OS, iyo yakagadzirirwa kushandiswa mune iri kuuya IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC). Nokuda kwechibvumirano ichi, Microsoft yakatenga CP/M clone inonzi 86-DOS kubva kuSeattle Computer Products, iyo yakatumidzwa kuti MS-DOS, kunyange zvazvo IBM...  Mubvunzo: Iboka ripi rinotungamirira rakavamba zvinogadziriswa zvemidziyo yemakombiyuta uye kubudisa mabhuku?
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