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One year before Tim Paterson developed his Quick and Dirty Operating System, the US military created a powerful new programming language called Ada. Dozens of books and manuals were written about Ada, and every computer programmer in the world was acutely aware of her. Ada was a stunningly beautiful woman who had walked into their room. Paterson sold his Quick and Dirty OS to Bill Gates who shortened QDOS to DOS and used it as the foundation of what was to become the mighty Microsoft empire. But wh