Chronologically:
Steve W. & Steve J. came first. The hardware came first, then an OS to
make the hardware do something useful in a relatively easy manner.
Bill G. came last. It wasn't his hardware. The hardware was made by
IBM. He didn't "decide to sell an OS." IBM licensed QDOS from Bill,
and they renamed it. They should have purchased it. Korean
manufacturers undercut IBM, and licensed the OS from Bill, and the
BIOS from (I don't remember).
Bill originally wrote software for Apple, then was approached by IBM.
QDOS was purchased, not written, by Bill; and QDOS was a rip off of
CPM. Windows was a rip off of Mac OS. AFAIK, Bill never came up with
an original OS.
On Apr 10, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
MS and Apple came up with two marketing campaigns, and methods.
Bill decided to sell an OS and let manufacturers design equipment
around it.
Steve decided to not only sell an OS but to sell Hardware designed
around it.
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