Not true. As another contributor said about DOS and Gates, he bought it,
and with the help of another guy, made some changes to it, and then turned
around and sold it (to IBM, I believe).
kf
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Keith Kern wrote:
=
=
= I heard that Gates stole dos from IBM when he was working for them. Then he
= modified it a little and put it out on the market at MS-DOS, instead of IBM's
= PC-DOS. Then he just kept modifing it and then put a gui interface with it,
= Windows 2.0.
=
= Jake
=
= On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Statux wrote:
=
= --Gore never invented the internet. End of story. The networking concept
= --around the internet has been around since about the dawn of UNIX (which
= --was over 30 years ago). :)
= --
= --Gates didn't invent the first OS either... and DOS wasn't even his. It was
= --purchased from someone for $50,000 or something like that.
= --
= --I walked back into this conversation so I don't know how much of this is
= --to be serious :)
= --
= --I just don't want too many people getting confused by this.
= --
= --On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Paul Anderson wrote:
= --
= --> To be correct it was Tipper who invented the OS so that Al could invent
= --> the Internet. Bush denies involvement in the Washington inner circle
= --> and therefore denies any involvement with the Internet. :-)
= -->
= --> Paul Anderson
= -->
= -->
= --> Michael Yanowitz wrote:
= -->
= --> > Can someone please tell me what Gore's role was in
= --> > inventing the internet. (Please include all the Gory details
= --> > as well as AlGore-ithms). (But please don't beat around
= --> > the Bush or if there are many links get to Cheny).
= --> >
= --> > Steve Frampton wrote:
= --> >
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= --> > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Selim Jahangir wrote:
= --> > >
= --> > > > Dear All
= --> > > > What was the 1st invented OS in the world and when ?
= --> > >
= --> > > Bill Gates invented the first OS, and Al Gore wrote Winsock for
= --> > > it.
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