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neo_x500:
This was kinda a screw-up on IBM's part, they went to CP/M and I guess the "master of the house" wasn't home so they went to Microsoft. Microsoft, which didn't have the CP/M rip-off IBM wanted, bought out another OS, QDOS, which was disigned by a programmer that used to work for the company that made OS/2. Kind of a friend of a friend of a guy that knew this person that was high up there. Even in the early days, microsoft was ripping people off. The only thing they did make was the BASIC language, which was designed by his gateness before he reached the state he's in now. Gotta hand it to him on that, although rumours and stories say that he put it together one night as a last minute cram thing; even in the early days it was put together without care or thought. Bastards.
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I'm sorry, I didn't realize OS/2 was seperate from QDOS, But no, I doubt that M$ actually came up with it by themselves. I'm not sure about it's origins, but it was probably bought from some low level company where the owner just wanted to live like a fat fucking king the rest of his life. Pardon my french.

[ June 09, 2003: Message edited by: Neo_Linux_User ]

Laukev7:
[ June 09, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

Actually, IBM and Microsoft were the ones who developped OS/2, much later after Gates licensed them QDOS, which was from Seattle Computing. QDOS was an illegal rip-off based on a reverse engineered version of CP/M. Gary Kildall, the author of CP/M, was one of Gates' friends.

[ June 09, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

And no, Bill Gates did not write BASIC.

[ June 09, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

Laukev7:
Bill Gates did not invent BASIC. It was in the Public Domain, and all he did was port it to the Altair computer and claim it as his own. Even back in those days, he would crack down on competitors, accusing them of pirating "his" BASIC.

Calum:
BASIC was developed at Dartmouth college in 1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz.

the internet agrees with me  :D

neo_x500:
Well, OUCH, I will promptly shut the hell up then. My bad, I guess a gates has always been a rip off. Fucking asshole. You know, there are plenty of ways to become the richest man in the world, he had it set from the beginning, benmg born into a rich family was what set it all up for him. Sorry, my facts are never all that reliable-I guess some sites like to cover up the fact that he's a hack, a no talent ripo-off-I'll be careful which ones I believe in the future. This shit was al before my time anyway, so from now on I'll stay outta stuff I know nothing about.

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