4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
10:02 a.m.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:
I'm not asking, but others are:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/03/msdos_paternity_dispute/
Egad, how depressing and embarrassing. And only $75K?!
I don't see why "slapdash" as a criticism lessens it's value.
86DOS *was* "slapdash", but so what? I think Microsoft would call
it "fast to market". They bought it anyways, huh. Patterson's
code tended towards onelonghugesourcewithnocomments but he was a
good programmer and 86DOS was significant.
Why do things always turn out like this. Please, don't answer :-)