The IBM PC and MS-DOS were bundled together and announced to the public in August 1981.

于是IMB PC和MS-DOS便捆绑在一起，并于1981年8月面世。

Throughout the 1980s Microsoft moved steadily upward and by the 1990s MS-DOS had been exported around the world and had become the dominant software platform.

整个20世纪80年代，微软稳定发展。

As one technologist told me this week, prompting is something you did on MS-DOS.

正如一位技术专家本周告诉我的那样，提示是您在 MS-DOS 上所做的事情。

And Microsoft was happy to license MS-DOS to them, quickly making it the most popular PC operating system.

微软很乐意将 MS-DOS 授权给他们，迅速使其成为最流行的 PC 操作系统。

For example, Microsoft's Disk Operating System, or MS-DOS, was just 160 kilobytes, allowing it to fit, as the name suggests, onto a single disk.

例如，Microsoft 的磁盘操作系统，或 MS-DOS，只有 160 KB，顾名思义，它可以安装在单个磁盘上。

In 1980, IBM invited Microsoft to write a series of programming languages for its new personal computer, the IBM PC. Gates offered that Microsoft could also produce the operating systems MS-DOS.

1980年，IBM（美国国际商用机器公司）邀请微软为其新产品即IBM个人电脑（IBM PC）编写一整套程序设计语言。盖茨提议微软也可以生产操作系统（即微软磁盘操作系统，MS-DOS）。

He also saw that this interface would be a threat to Microsoft’s intention to make their own interface, the MS-DOS, the standard in the industry.

他还看到，此界面将威胁到 Microsoft 将其自己的界面 MS-DOS 作为行业标准的意图。