Re: A83: Re: HAYS (be sure to read this one to the end)

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Re: A83: Re: HAYS (be sure to read this one to the end)


In accordance with the prophecy, CrASH_Man uttered:


> ok, well yes, and i'm sure they got it from the one genius who came up with
> the original ideas of DOS and guis like MacOS.  That's just like people
> licensing the Quake2 engine to make their own game...  Except, that wouldn't
> be making a game, that would be making quake 2.  That's not programming.
> I'm just saying that copying other people's code doesn't get you anywhere.
> My point is that original code is important.

> -crashman

>> Apple stole their "ideas" from Xerox...


AFAIK, Apple paid Xerox to use their idea, whereas M$ didn't pay anyone, they
just went ahead and used it.

DOS in the c64 days actually meant Disk Operating System, and was the code
being run on the internal processor in the disk drive. The c64 disk drive was
intelligent, i.e. you would send it a filename and the actual disk drive
would create a file with that name, so no external file system was needed.

So when you say "the one genius who came up with the original ideas of DOS",
I hope you don't mean the guy who created the ms-dos file system part? Because
that was the young Bill Gates who needed some way of archiving his Basic
programs on disk. A genius didn't create ms-dos. Ms-dos is some _MESSY_ crap.

The history of computers goes back longer than most people would expect. Some
people today don't even know what an Amiga is, and although I can understand
those who say it isn't good anymore (I don't _agree_ with them, though), I
can't really grasp the idea that they haven't ever heard the name!

But that's just it, people don't know anything until they get the whole
picture. They just think they know. And I'm not claiming that I know
everything, it's just that..... well, if you want to take part in a
discussion, you'd better know what you're talking about. And the only way to
learn it, is to look at the history. Look, not glance.

Linus

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