I wrote all this and no one replied to it. did it not show up? On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 01:19:08PM -0500, Allen wrote:
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 01:01:30PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
Allen wrote:
I'm 22. I got my first computer when I was 17 / 18. I'm just good with history.
So, what was Bill Gates' first product (besides BS)?
A compiler. ;) Though he did this before Microsoft was even well know. He almost made BASIC.... well, not sure HE made it, I mean God knows he doesn't code often.
He also wrote a note to the computer club saying they stole things (You can see this in the movie Revolution OS, cool). He almost had Xenix but ditched that when IBM came to him for an OS for the "PC" in which he bought a rip off of CP/M from Tim Patterson of Seattle computer products. He didn't pay much for it.
It took a few weeks to compile it and if you have this version of DOS, you can see his name on it as of yet because even back then, they put it out before chekcing to make sure it was gone.
Tim then worked for Microsoft for a couple years.
Gates got away with not selling DOS outright to IBM, so he had MS-DOS, they had PC-DOS, and Dr-DOS was out.... Lots of DOS, even Apple had a DOS.
DOS couldn't actually use a HD and then alter on support for those was added in, it didn't handle them well but people were willing to look the other way because they no longer needed to share a HD with their deparment and had one of their very own. (You can find this story in the book "The Complete Free BSD, 3rd Edition").
Gates made a GUI called Windows 1.0 which I have a copy of, friend got it for me, he knows I collect OSs. The look was apple. Apple got pissed but Gates tricked them in court so he was allowed to use their stuff. Can't find the story right now because I'm not searching as I type this, I closed my browser to do an update.
Gates then started realising Windows wasn't in competition with Unix. He wanted all of the PC market and took some CMS coders anbd told them what they could do, to make Windows NT. That was already a joke of an OS but it was more stable than previous versions. But the UI was crap and looked like Windows 2.o and 3.0.
He promised a new version with the Windows 95 interface and that came years later than he said ti would. Surpise, he stuck with that motto. Windows 2000 was going to be called NT5 and in some parts of the system it is called that. Windows XP is called NT 5.1. I can type more if you want but this is becoming long.
-Allen.
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