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)
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From: Linus Akesson <lairfight@softhome.net>
To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 7:16 PM
Subject: 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.
What else has DOS ever stood for? (and don't say denial of service.. ;) )
> 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.
Microsoft didn't even make DOS, they bought it for something like 50,000 in
the early 80's... but you probably already know that. :)
Bryan
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