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the premier single-user operating system", said Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, his company "hopes that Xenix will become the preferred choice for software production and exchange", it stated in 1981. MS-DOS was Microsoft's "single-user, single-tasking operating system", which can run from floppy disks. Xenix, Allen said, "really should be used with a hard disk". MS-DOS and Xenix are "part of a family ... with a clear migration path", he added, promising binary compatibility of Xenix-compiled C software with

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