What did Billy for programming??
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He worked on a Basic intepreter for CP/M. That was Microsoft's first product. He also worked on MS-DOS 1.0 which was the company's big break. Don't know if he did much programming after MS-DOS. See this link for a reference to his early work. /ravi "There is always one more bug..." ravib@ravib.com http://www.ravib.com
I love youre posts in this forum, but I couln't resist to reply to you with another link: http://netaction.org/msoft/world/MSWord2World.html :mad: :mad: Is a little bit longer article, but I couldn't combate that arguments.
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He worked on a Basic intepreter for CP/M. That was Microsoft's first product. He also worked on MS-DOS 1.0 which was the company's big break. Don't know if he did much programming after MS-DOS. See this link for a reference to his early work. /ravi "There is always one more bug..." ravib@ravib.com http://www.ravib.com
Oh, forgotten: You give me a link to a story, I give you a link to an article. ;P ;P
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Hey, is friday afternoon in my office, so is time for a controversial discution. Because here at CP, we are in big part, MS developers I asked myself: what did Bill Gates in programming world? What was his contribution? I mean, someone invented UNIX, other create a programming language, someone create a new programming paradigm, and so on. But Billy boy? He just look at others ideas and exploit in the market???? Note: I reffer strictly to mr. Gates, not to Microsoft as a company. MS probably had some inventions, even I'm not so sure... :mad: :confused: :mad: :eek: Let's enjoy conversation! ;P :-D :laugh: Don Miguel
Bill Gates invented the marketing vision to make personal computers a success. Before Gates came along not many people were interested in the consumer market or the small business market and most people were interested in proprietary hardware. Gates wanted generic hardware but proprietary software. I think he realized that at some level hardware is all the same, but software is where the real power is. So as far as "What did Gates do for the programming world?", the answer is that he opened the doors to the small business and comsumer markets. Thus creating competition for hardware manufacturers by giving them all the same market and leveling the playing field. Since hardware was no longer the driving force in computers, software became the forefront of competitive advantage and product differentiation. Would someone else have eventually done the same thing? Sure, but the point is Gates was first. The same thing could be said for the inventors of the transistor, C++ and UNIX. Someone would have eventually invented them. Just my 2 cents. Matt Gullett
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Bill Gates invented the marketing vision to make personal computers a success. Before Gates came along not many people were interested in the consumer market or the small business market and most people were interested in proprietary hardware. Gates wanted generic hardware but proprietary software. I think he realized that at some level hardware is all the same, but software is where the real power is. So as far as "What did Gates do for the programming world?", the answer is that he opened the doors to the small business and comsumer markets. Thus creating competition for hardware manufacturers by giving them all the same market and leveling the playing field. Since hardware was no longer the driving force in computers, software became the forefront of competitive advantage and product differentiation. Would someone else have eventually done the same thing? Sure, but the point is Gates was first. The same thing could be said for the inventors of the transistor, C++ and UNIX. Someone would have eventually invented them. Just my 2 cents. Matt Gullett
Matt Gullett wrote: I think he realized that at some level hardware is all the same, but software is where the real power is. Matt, I respect youre opinion. Is a thinked one. And I know now that is the answer I waited from this thread. Don Miguel
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Hey, is friday afternoon in my office, so is time for a controversial discution. Because here at CP, we are in big part, MS developers I asked myself: what did Bill Gates in programming world? What was his contribution? I mean, someone invented UNIX, other create a programming language, someone create a new programming paradigm, and so on. But Billy boy? He just look at others ideas and exploit in the market???? Note: I reffer strictly to mr. Gates, not to Microsoft as a company. MS probably had some inventions, even I'm not so sure... :mad: :confused: :mad: :eek: Let's enjoy conversation! ;P :-D :laugh: Don Miguel
Bill bought the rights to a BASIC interpreter and sold it to MITS in New Mexico for use with their Altair 8800 microcomputer. That's the earliest info I've been able to find... The Altair cost about $1900US and came with 1KB of RAM. It was sold as a kit, and the user had the fun of soldering all the parts on the motherboard and the 102 wires from the buss to the front panel LEDs and toggle switches. Additional memory (as much as 64k!) could be added - a 4KB card was $400.
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Bill bought the rights to a BASIC interpreter and sold it to MITS in New Mexico for use with their Altair 8800 microcomputer. That's the earliest info I've been able to find... The Altair cost about $1900US and came with 1KB of RAM. It was sold as a kit, and the user had the fun of soldering all the parts on the motherboard and the 102 wires from the buss to the front panel LEDs and toggle switches. Additional memory (as much as 64k!) could be added - a 4KB card was $400.
Thanks for this information. How this age begun...
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Hey, is friday afternoon in my office, so is time for a controversial discution. Because here at CP, we are in big part, MS developers I asked myself: what did Bill Gates in programming world? What was his contribution? I mean, someone invented UNIX, other create a programming language, someone create a new programming paradigm, and so on. But Billy boy? He just look at others ideas and exploit in the market???? Note: I reffer strictly to mr. Gates, not to Microsoft as a company. MS probably had some inventions, even I'm not so sure... :mad: :confused: :mad: :eek: Let's enjoy conversation! ;P :-D :laugh: Don Miguel
I highly recommend reading The Making Of Microsoft, Ichbiah/Knepper, ISBN 1-55958-071-2. Peter
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Tim Lesher wrote: being the sine qua non of an institution's p.s. I don't speak french/latin/italian/egotalk. Heh. Dictionary.com. Learn it, live it, love it. :-) Anyway, it's not ego speak. I could have said "being a person without whom an institution wouldn't exist", but that's too long to type. I could have said, "Being the person who's solely responsible for an institution," or "Being the founder of an institution", but that's not what I meant. Say what you mean, in as few words as possible without changing the meaning of what you're saying. :-) I read a quote once that said "If you have to use cliched phrases from another language to get your point across you have no clue what your point actually is about." Or something like that, kapiche? :-) I also read one that states "A pithy quote proves nothing." (Voltaire, if you care). Tim Lesher http://www.lesher.ws
Tim Lesher wrote: Say what you mean, in as few words as possible without changing the meaning of what you're saying. I've been suspicious of that approach since my first programming job, using the programming language MUMPS (Massachussetts general hospital Utility Multi-Programming System). It's certainly succinct; but do you really want to say "build me an infinite loop here" in three characters, only one of which is visible? ("F, space, space", if you care :-)) Gavin Greig
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Hey, is friday afternoon in my office, so is time for a controversial discution. Because here at CP, we are in big part, MS developers I asked myself: what did Bill Gates in programming world? What was his contribution? I mean, someone invented UNIX, other create a programming language, someone create a new programming paradigm, and so on. But Billy boy? He just look at others ideas and exploit in the market???? Note: I reffer strictly to mr. Gates, not to Microsoft as a company. MS probably had some inventions, even I'm not so sure... :mad: :confused: :mad: :eek: Let's enjoy conversation! ;P :-D :laugh: Don Miguel
Well, actually, Bill Gates did write a lot of code himself in the early days. For instance, he single handedly wrote the BIOS for the Tandy 100, which was pretty much his last actual coding project. However, as Chief Architect, he's been very heavily involved in the whole .NET process. -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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Hey, is friday afternoon in my office, so is time for a controversial discution. Because here at CP, we are in big part, MS developers I asked myself: what did Bill Gates in programming world? What was his contribution? I mean, someone invented UNIX, other create a programming language, someone create a new programming paradigm, and so on. But Billy boy? He just look at others ideas and exploit in the market???? Note: I reffer strictly to mr. Gates, not to Microsoft as a company. MS probably had some inventions, even I'm not so sure... :mad: :confused: :mad: :eek: Let's enjoy conversation! ;P :-D :laugh: Don Miguel
DONKEY.BAS cheers, Chris Maunder
