whats even more interesting, MS didn't even invent it. they "appropriated" it from a man in seattle for all of $50,000. It was originally called QDOS (Quick and dirty Operating system).
In fact when you get down to it, MS "appropriated" rather a number of items from others (like the mouse from 3M). They didn't even invent the windowing interface (the X desktop existed in UNIX long before 1985) and used CDE). THey only reinvented it for MS-Dos (as well as being the subcontractor for apple when they coded the windowing interface for the Macintosh). ABout the only things that MS did well were a complete office suite and SOme server side applications. So yes, they have tried to bury Linux, obfuscate where they got a lot of their ideas from and generally been greedy and seeking total control of the OS market. Even to this day, I still will use either a mac or Linux (both have built in accessibility). Windows is too much a pain to properly deal with as a blind computer user (and the accessibility software to make windows work for me is just too damned pricey). -eric On Aug 5, 2014, at 8:16 PM, George Toft wrote: > Nowhere in the article does it say Microsoft wrote/created MS-DOS. The only > error I can see in there is that MS-DOS did not ship on IBM PC's in 1981. It > was just called "DOS" - MS-DOS came out with version 2 when Microsoft changed > the OS to a license model and then deployed their own for the clones. My > memory may be getting a bit scrambled as that was over 30 years ago. > > Regards, > > George Toft > > On 7/30/2014 2:36 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> I just read a bit of it and it appears to be not as factual as when others >> are saying. For instance M$ did not create DOS. They bought it. >> >> On 2014-07-30 15:22, Michael Havens wrote: >>> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/history#T1=era0 [1] >>> >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> Links: >>> ------ >>> [1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/history#T1=era0 >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
