16 Jun
2004
16 Jun
'04
9:15 a.m.
>Bill Gates had the opportunity to develop an
operating system [MS-DOS]
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Erm, it's well known he *bought* that. He did
*not* develop it.
definition of "develop"?
After MICROS~1 bought QDOS, there was a LOT of work that needed to be done
on it. I don't think that billg was an active participant in any of
the work on MS-DOS. What percentage of what should have been done did
they do?
The last
thing BG worked on himself was the OS for the Tandy Model 'T' (Kyocera
OEMmed) series of laptops. And that was back when Micro$haft still knew how
to make decent software, instead of buy crap & selling it to IBM.
Are you implying that the 1983? RS model 100 (and NEC 8201, etc) came
BEFORE the 8/11/1981 5150?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com