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In July 1981, a month before the PC's release, Microsoft purchased all rights to 86-DOS from SCP for US$50,000. [ 3 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] It met IBM's main criteria: it looked like CP/M, [ 2 ] and it was easy to adapt existing 8-bit CP/M programs to run under it, notably thanks to the TRANS command which would translate source files from 8080 to 8086 ...