Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: computer history Date: 18 Jul 2015 09:46:23 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <87y4iia18o.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> <160720152250081512%timstreater@greenbee.net> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net g21Aas/4Urny4YD1LQ5qkAVSJGzWITcM2pdAYhuUnOGeBsDnMC Cancel-Lock: sha1:UvNUnK6pjBqFwnSxnw5aGY92YNY= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:8165 On 2015-07-18, Michael Black 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. [44 lines snipped] -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 53rd day of Confusion in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.