On 04/01/17 03:25, James Knott wrote:
On 01/03/2017 08:51 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
but Bill gates did what Hank Ford had done and made the technology into a consumer item by simplifying it down for people who weren't enthusiasts and who didn't have the time or inclination to read the manual.
Actually, that was Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak. What Bill Gates did was sell IBM DOS, before he bought it from Seattle Computer Products, which in turn was based on and contained code from CP/M. It was IBM making it and almost completely open system that generated the clone market and mass acceptance. There were also clones of the Apple computers.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was neither. Still, we do like re-writing history in our favour, and as the guy who seized control of the computer I'm not surprised that it was re-written to favour Bill Gates. Bit like my pet moan - Everyone knows Edison invented the light bulb. His patent that claims that is dated TWO YEARS AFTER he visited a factory making light bulbs in Birmingham (the original, not the one in Alabama). Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org