[Elecraft] Spilling the HF beans .....

[Sandy]

Unfortunately, for the customersw/patrons, Bill has continued screwing us 
all with "imperfect" and buggy operating systems!  Too bad he doesn't 
improve and debug the old Windows systems instead of foisting newer and 
still buggy systems on us!  To add to our misery, he has seen fit to invest 
his billions in India where he gets programmers cheaper.  (The ones you 
can't understand on technical Help!)

I have heard real horror stories about the "Consumer" version of VISTA!

73,

Sandy W5TVW
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Person" <doug at northroutt.net>
Cc: "Elecraft" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Spilling the HF beans .....


> Bill Gates has written lots of code.  He is (or at least was) a truly 
> outstanding programmer.  Years ago he was known to review code, find 
> something he didn't like and call up the programmer and give 'em hell.  MS 
> Programmers have also been known to suddenly receive bonuses as stock 
> options because Bill liked their code.  The very highest status a 
> programmer could hope to achieve was having been recognized by Bill in 
> this way.
>
> Also, PC-DOS has always been on the market. In fact you can still buy a 
> copy (version 8.0). It has always been maintained separately from MS-DOS 
> since its inception.  A significant portion of PC-DOS was (and still is) 
> strictly blue-code.
>
> Bill bought QDOS for $40,000 cash and some vague promises about further 
> deals.  Many, many companies have looked back at their dealings with Bill 
> and realized they've been had. BigTime.  The dirty dealings with IBM are 
> by far the worst thing on Bill's list of dirty tricks and double-crosses.
>
> 73, Doug -- K0DXV
>
> w6jd at comcast.net wrote:
>> That's the story I remember. Gates has been great at acquiring other 
>> peoples projects and turning them into gold..I'm not sure he's ever 
>> actually written a line of code!
>>
>> Doug
>> W6JD
>>
>> -------------- Original message -------------- 
>> From: Brian Lloyd <brian-wb6rqn at lloyd.com>
>>
>>> On Jun 3, 2007, at 4:54 AM, Fred (FL) wrote:
>>>
>>>> And Bill Gates empire was launched, and IBM got its first DOS contract 
>>>> from Gates - and IBM's PC was launched.
>>> The way I remember it, IBM decided they wanted a version of CP/M for 
>>> their new Intel 8086-based system and went to Digital Research. Somehow 
>>> the folks at DR managed to really annoy the folks from IBM. (I heard it 
>>> that Gary Kildall's wife wouldn't deal with them because Gary was 
>>> out-of-town.) So IBM turned to the small company that was supposed to 
>>> provide the BASIC interpreter for the new "PC": Microsoft.
>>> Bill Gates of Microsoft assured IBM that Microsoft had a replacement for 
>>> CP/M-86 even though they really didn't. (Ah, vapor-ware has been with us 
>>> for a LONG time.) Microsoft then quickly purchased the rights to a CP/M 
>>> lookalike called QDOS. That became IBM's PC-DOS which Microsoft then 
>>> renamed MS-DOS. The rest is history.
>>> 73 de Brian, WB6RQN Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com
>>>
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