Word: dos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week when Cuba removed its remaining troops, five weeks ahead of a June 30 deadline for a complete withdrawal. The evacuation of nearly 2,000 Cuban soldiers added a grace note to this week's scheduled signing in Lisbon of a peace treaty between Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and Jonas Savimbi, leader of the U.S.-backed rebel group UNITA. The pact paves the way for the establishment of a multiparty democracy in the formerly Marxist state and elections...
...Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh are expected to be on hand to congratulate Dos Santos and Savimbi -- as well they might. Since Angola won independence from Portugal in 1975, $ Moscow has spent as much as $1 billion a year to prop up the regime, while the U.S. has contributed up to $60 million annually to the rebels...
...Microsoft stock worth about $4.3 billion. The company didn't get so big so fast all alone: its close tie to Big Blue propelled it to the top. A decade ago, the two companies teamed up to develop the IBM PC, with Microsoft contributing the disk operating system, or DOS. After the PC started to lose steam, the two joined to introduce a new system based on IBM's Personal System 2 machines and Microsoft's Operating System 2 software...
...year-end -- but that doesn't mean it will prevail. Microsoft is attracting a dedicated following to its successful Windows software, which lets users juggle a variety of programs at once. While Windows is not as muscular as OS/2, Gates sees it as a bridge leading customers from DOS to OS/2 in a smooth transition. He thinks that is important: "Switching overnight to OS/2 is too great a leap," he says...
...whether the company's role as supplier of both operating systems (the basic programs that make a computer work) and applications software (the programs that do word processing, calculating and other jobs) gives it an unfair advantage. More than 80% of all personal computers use the company's DOS, while an additional 3% use OS/2. One rival, Go Corp., charges that Microsoft swiped its idea for a software system that operates computers through a stylus capable of writing on the screen rather than through a keyboard. Microsoft (along with Hewlett-Packard) is also the target of a suit filed...