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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: computer history |
| Date | 2015-07-18 09:46 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <d0uljfFrh5sU3@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2015-07-18, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jul 2015, Johnny B Good wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 22:24:52 +0000, True Satan wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:42:51 -0400, Bill Cun
>>>> I have *never* known Microsoft to come out with /anything/
>>>> original.
>>>> Silverlight was copied I think from Adobe's (or I guess I should say
>>>> Macromedia) Flashplayer. C# and .NET from Jim Gosling's Java. Nope
>>>> never anthing original.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>
>>> Bill,
>>>
>>> I wonder if you know that even MSDOS owes an awful lot to the earlier
>>> CPM and that Excel owes yet another huge debt to Multiplan that MS
>>> bought from an outside company...come to think of it they bought in the
>>> first upderpinnings of Word rather that developing them in house.
>>>
>>
>> As far as PCDOS goes, the custom version supplied to IBM for their
>> fledgling PC by Microsoft, this was based on a port of CP/M86
86-DOS, aka QDOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS
>> that Bill
>> had bought in from a small Seattle software house
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products
>> (it might even have
>> been a one man band outfit) where the syntax and error messages were made
>> more fit for 'normal human consumption'.
>>
>> Bill Gates somehow managed to get out of his contract with IBM,
IBM foolishly didn't contract for exclusive use. That one error likely
made Gates the world's richest man.
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