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[[File:NMALBmicrosoft pike2.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A monument stands where Bill Gates obtained the MS-DOS program from a Sandia Lab employee. The monument stands about 5 miles from where [[David Greenglass]] passed off the proximity fuse to [[Harry Gold]] in the famous [[Julius Rosenberg|Rosenberg case]] and [[Lona Cohen]] received atomic espionage information from her [[KGB]] contacts at [[Los Alamos]] some 30 years earlier, unofficially kicking off the [[Cold War]]. When the Cold War ended, Microsoft was in the driver's seat of the post-Cold War era.]]
[[File:NMALBmicrosoft pike2.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A monument stands where Bill Gates obtained the MS-DOS program from a Sandia Lab employee. The monument stands about 5 miles from where [[David Greenglass]] passed off the proximity fuse to [[Harry Gold]] in the famous [[Julius Rosenberg|Rosenberg case]] and [[Lona Cohen]] received atomic espionage information from her [[KGB]] contacts at [[Los Alamos]] some 30 years earlier, unofficially kicking off the [[Cold War]]. When the Cold War ended, Microsoft was in the driver's seat of the post-Cold War era.]]
Gates interest in computers began at age 13. To avoid the draft, Gates was enrolled at [[Harvard]] at 17; he dropped out in his sophomore year when [[Selective Service]] registration was suspended early in 1975. He moved to [[Albuquerque]], [[New Mexico]] and set up a storefront outside the gate of Sandia National Laboratories. There he purchased from a government employee on Kirtland airbase, where Sandia labs is housed, what he later patented as [[MS-DOS]].
Gates interest in computers began at age 13. To avoid the draft, Gates was enrolled at [[Harvard]] at 17; he dropped out in his sophomore year when [[Selective Service]] registration was suspended early in 1975. He moved to [[Albuquerque]], [[New Mexico]] and set up a storefront outside the gate of Sandia National Laboratories. There he purchased from a government employee on Kirtland airbase, where Sandia labs is housed, what he later patented as [[MS-DOS]].
Before the applications of [[microprocessor]]s to [[nuclear weapons]] during the 1970s, Sandia used hard logic - transistors or low-level gates on small scale integrated circuits. These provided little flexibility. If a change in functions was required, it was necessary to rebuild the logic boards. The advent of microprocessors added flexibility by accommodating changes simply by changing the [[software]]. Packed with advance microprocessors SANDSAC was first used in Sandia's TIGER program in the 1970s,<ref>''A History of Exceptional Service'', Leland Johnson, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque , New Mexico, 1997. Limited Edition.</ref>
William Gates, Sr., Bill's father, was a patent attorney. Under the [[DARPA]] program, technology developed through public funds is public property. By law, the [[United States Government]] cannot own a patent.
William Gates, Sr., Bill's father, was a patent attorney. Under the [[DARPA]] program, technology developed through public funds is public property. By law, the [[United States Government]] cannot own a patent.