Re: [SLE] Gnome disappointment

From: Allen (gorebofh_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/12/05

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    Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:02:14 -0500
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    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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