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To: Don Green who wrote (33519)	5/30/2002 9:41:40 PM
From: OrionX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Don, In this whole Microsoft/DOS story, what has been barely written about is why IBM didn't write their own OS. They certainly had the people to design the hardware and they had more than enough talented people to design operating systems. So, why not hire a few people from the mainframe groups to put together an OS? I've never understood such blind stupidity on the part of IBM.

To: Don Green who wrote (33519)	5/31/2002 12:18:18 AM
From: jonkai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

More interesting is Paul Allen and what little he really did to justify being one of the richest men in the world. lets see, Paul Allen was the one that showed Bill gates the electronics article showing the intc chip the 8080... inspiring them both to form a software company.... Paul Allen helped write the first version of the MSFT version of BASIC.... which is the whole reason IBM contacted MSFT........ Paul Allen showed gates the article in Popular Electronics. The cover read, "World's First Minicomputer Kit to Rival Commercial Models … Altair 8800." inspiring Gates to drop out of HARVARD at Allen's prodding, so they could jump into this new field with both feet..... The next month, February 1975, it was Paul Allen who met with Ed Roberts, owner of MITS, to demonstrate his and Gates' newly written BASIC for the Altair..... which by the way, according to Allen ran exactly as advertised on the Altair, despite him sweating for a week that it wouldn't work..... Paul Allen was the person who knew Tim Patterson, not Bill Gates.... or they would have never had a deal with IBM...... i think it would be more accurate to call Bill Gates the accidental Billionaire....... amazing what people like you do to butcher history...... hard to read such ignorance.......... jon.

To: Don Green who wrote (33519)	5/31/2002 10:24:56 PM
From: HerbVic	Respond to of 213177

Isn't that what every parent no matter what their means should or does try to do for their offspring. Oh, absolutely! I'm not critical at all of Mary and Bill Jr. I just think it is an interesting story that isn't being told. I think Bill the 3rd would be embarrassed by it. It's not that young Mr. Gates was in any way incompetent. After all, it was he that leveraged the somewhat fortunate circumstance to become the richest man in the world for (what) 8 years in a row. But if the story is true, and I suspect it is, it's embarrassingly funny. I agree with you on Paul Allen also. HerbVic