DOS was purchased by Gates from another developer who seems to have
derived it from CP/M
IBM bought DOS from gates before he even owned it, thus establishing a
pattern of vaporware that persists even today in the Microsoft marketing
system.
IBM bought DOS from Gates because the owner of DR-DOS decided he would
prefer to be flying his plane than talk to a bunch of establishment
white shirts from IBM.
Both Gates and Jobs saw the first GUI at Xerox PARC.
Jobs saw it first and had the first version on the streets.
When Gates put out Win1.0 ther5e ws a very loud pissing contest and
court suits, that Microsoft won establishing the standard that you can't
copyright the look and feel of an operating system. This gives us X-Windows.
The animosity lasted as long as Jobs was alive, alth9ugh they looked
like they had grudgingly kissed and made up at their last public appearance.
Ancient history long before many of you were born.
On 12/18/2014 11:34 AM, Stephen Partington wrote:
>
> This is a rather simple answer for a look on story.
>
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows
>
> On Dec 18, 2014 11:29 AM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1@gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Linux is built off of GNU. What is BSD built off of? And then
> there is Windows. I heard that Windows was built off of Unix. If
> that is the case was no one paying attention to copyright laws?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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