On Saturday 12 November 2005 03:06 pm, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 17:30 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Mike McMullin wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 18:36 -0800, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 13:01 -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)?
I didn't know he dated Barbera Streisand.
As to his first product what has he really developed from scratch ever. DOS was simply a fork of CPM and that he got cheap and exploited to the hilt. Since then I can not think of a single scratch idea through code and release that BG ever created. I think he is more Borg than man assimilating whatever and whoever can not stand up to him.
Would Altair Basic be it? The one that he cried about not getting all of the registrations (and monies) that the thought he was entitled to?
No. While He developed BASIC for the Altair and complained about the "theft", his first product was a traffic counting system called Traf-O-Data. I included a URL in another note.
My bad. I keep going back to this one thing as being the seminal event that forms the crux of M$ core philosophy. Make sure they pay you, and pay you more, and can't help but pay you again.
You're almost there. Check out the April and November letters, from '75, I think. The homebrew computer club was passing out copies of Altair basic, which pissed off Gates to no end. He then wrote full page letters in Byte magazine describing how all software should be closed source and paid for. -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part