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To: Kashish King who wrote (5727)12/10/1996 11:21:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella   of 42771
 
Sorry Rod but Gates held up the development of computers for a decade

DOS was a pathetic operating system. It won because all of the people that had capital at the time were a bunch of conservative self satisfied morons that couldn't think their way out of tying their shoelaces. Clone was the big word. Example 640x480 (now known as VGA) was the color graphics standard when IBM introduced 320x200. Technical standards were always rejected because the PC wasn't supposed to be a computer at IBM. That was Gates opposition and shield. He had the inside track.

Nothing Gates has ever done has ever been creative or innovative.
What Gates had was Momas connections, marketing, the Rockefeller instinct for the jugular vein, and IBM as his monopoly shield.

About the only thing GAtes did for the industry was make a sound card a PC standard. The OSs from MSFT are all dogs and bug ridden. MSFT repeats every mistake ever made in software. In 10 years the next generation of computer scientists are going to wonder why it took us so long to get out of this mess.

So take it to the MSFT thread! And go study the OS's from the late 1960's. Gates higher purpose is to make money off of saps like you.

<Joe, this is what I thought of 5727>
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