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

[David Wilburn]

You mean beside their decision to integrate the browser with the
operating system????  Bad Bill, no cookie...

David Wilburn
dave.wilburn at verizon.net
K4DGW
K2 #5982


> Doug Person wrote:
>> 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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