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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 the draft ended. 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 the draft ended. 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]].
William Gates, Sr., Bill's father, was a patent attorney.
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.
==MS-DOS==
==MS-DOS==