I was before 9yo (assuming 1980)
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:49 AM, koder <
iscreamkid@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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> 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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