SRL Archive - Discussions & Debates

So I was talking to my friend who knows a lot about Windows and computers etc. He explained something to me that I got lost in about some code you can still type to-this-day into even windows 7 and it will do a certain function.

The catch is that this string that you enter must end in a dollar sign and he said that Bill Gates still cannot tell you exactly why it must end in a dollar sign. This is because he doesn't know why because DOS was stolen from Gary Kildall of Digital Research. The original and FIRST home PC OS was CP/M.

CPM

Read the article. To this day, Window's core is still based on CP/M which Bill stole years ago. If Caldera Inc. would've settled for royalties including future Windows versions, they would've been set for life!

So for all those documentaries out there of how Bill Gates is the best businessman in history, he boils down to nothing else but a mere common thief. Interesting.

Wrong Section.
Moved.
Interesting.

This isn't news….

Watch the movie "Pirates of silicon valley"
Goes through it all, and it wasn't stolen it was bought for $200

To bad your is friend wrong. It was bought.

From: Hobbit
This isn't news….

Watch the movie "Pirates of silicon valley"
Goes through it all, and it wasn't stolen it was bought for $200

I was gonna say that. Good movie too. hehe

From: Ranger135xp

So for all those documentaries out there of how Bill Gates is the best businessman in history…..

There are many ways to be a great business man, and you don't get to one of (the?) most wealthy people in world just on luck, you do have to be a great business man.

From: Brain
There are many ways to be a great business man, and you don't get to one of (the?) most wealthy people in world just on luck, you do have to be a great business man.

i dont think hes the wealthiest any more

and interesting i think my dad told me something about him stealing the idea for the mouse from some dude at apple or something but i could be totally wrong

[OFFTOPIC]i wonder what he was giving out for halloween…*pictures $100 bills*[/OFFTOPIC]

From: J_Pizzle
i dont think hes the wealthiest any more

He said one of the wealthiest and he still is, he hasnt been THE wealthiest for quite some time now

From: J_Pizzle
and interesting i think my dad told me something about him stealing the idea for the mouse from some dude at apple or something but i could be totally wrong

Again false. The inventor of the mouse presented it to IBM and they said what in the world would anyone need a mouse for? Bill Gates soon after cut that person into a deal to get the mouse. So again he was very smart and saw the potential in it and was willing to take a risk and the investment paid off, such did buying DOS.

Like said above, he was a great business man.

http://www.justsharethis.com/top-10-richest-person-in-the-world-2009/

"Software visionary regains title as the world’s richest man despite losing $18 billion in the past 12 months"

Only number 4 on the all time list, like a third of Rockfeller

From: J_Pizzle
i dont think hes the wealthiest any more

and interesting i think my dad told me something about him stealing the idea for the mouse from some dude at apple or something but i could be totally wrong

iirc the mouse interface came from a now famous printing company (forgot name).

It was XEROX Sorry, not IBM.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C1mcu4w-ag

From: Hobbit
It was XEROX Sorry, not IBM.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C1mcu4w-ag

Xerox! Ha I knew it was a printing/office company.

From: Narcle
Xerox! Ha I knew it was a printing/office company.

Xerox also created the "desktop" idea of having icon's etc. Moving away from the command-lines of DOS.

Yeah.. Microsoft took advantage of the then small XEROX.

My dad is a VP for XEROX, and yeah.. he told all of these horror stories :(

From: Nava2
Xerox also created the "desktop" idea of having icon's etc. Moving away from the command-lines of DOS.

Yeah.. Microsoft took advantage of the then small XEROX.

My dad is a VP for XEROX, and yeah.. he told all of these horror stories :(

Ermm…. when that happened XEROX was a MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH larger company then Microsoft was.

Also pics or lies :p

"In 1981, Microsoft paid Seattle Software Works for an unauthorized clone of CP/M, and Microsoft licensed this clone to IBM which marketed it as PC-DOS on the first IBM PC in 1981"

Hobbit, you are wrong. The copy is clearly stated it is unauthorized by Digital Research.

From: Ranger135xp
"In 1981, Microsoft paid Seattle Software Works for an unauthorized clone of CP/M, and Microsoft licensed this clone to IBM which marketed it as PC-DOS on the first IBM PC in 1981"

Hobbit, you are wrong. The copy is clearly stated it is unauthorized by Digital Research.

Whats your source?

From: MylesMadness
Whats your source?

The link i posted in the first post… :rolleyes:

I thought everyone already knew this…

From: Ranger135xp
"In 1981, Microsoft paid Seattle Software Works for an unauthorized clone of CP/M, and Microsoft licensed this clone to IBM which marketed it as PC-DOS on the first IBM PC in 1981"

Hobbit, you are wrong. The copy is clearly stated it is unauthorized by Digital Research.

Clone of CP/M != CP/M