http://clusterize.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Unix_history-simple_20021.png
Gives a good visual history of the *nix OSes and what they're derived from.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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