18 Apr
2005
18 Apr
'05
10:27 p.m.
Randy McLaughlin wrote:
From: "woodelf" <bfranchuk at
jetnet.ab.ca>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:50 PM
Can't say "Crash the plane" can you?
Now back to Basic and early machines had one good feature -- while not
user freindly
you did have the advantage of having custom computer control often a
6502 based system
that still could be in use today.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
I often hear peple talk about Willy boy, they assume he went to MIT or
some other techie school.
He dropped out of Harvard school of Business. He dropped out when he
figured out how to get rich not because he was stupid.
He may not know much about computers or quality of products but he
knows how to make $.
Give Willy boy his due.
Just be glad he is the leader of most everything computer related and
not Air traffic!
Having most peoples computers crash is a bother but you get to walk away!
Just imagine flying across the country and in mid flight having to
shut everything down and re-booting or even worse having to reload the
airplane in mid flight.
Maybe he decided that since he couldn't get
what he thought his
software
was worth that he'd lower it to the level consistent with what he was
getting. Then when he became a billionaire 50 times over, he forgot
(or
forgot how) to actually start writing good software consistent with the
money it was making ;)
Well I don't consider BASIC or other M$ products quality products in
the 1st place.
Mr Bill is known for marketing not programing software. I think I
read that productivity
has gone down since the 90's as you have more lost work do to
computer crashes.