Redditor warns younger generations that Bill Gates stole Windows from Gary Kildall - Upgoat

Redditor warns younger generations that Bill Gates stole Windows from Gary Kildall
submitted by Conspirologist to MeanwhileOnReddit 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 01:43:53 ago (+31/-2) (archive.vn)
https://archive.vn/NGxi9

[ - ] observation1 8 points 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 01:51:18 ago (+8/-0)

"Ask Bill why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that."
--Gary Kildall

[ + ] dassar

[ - ] dassar 0 points 4 monthsDec 20, 2023 00:33:09 ago (+0/-0)

What is the actual answer thou ??

[ - ] RevengeOfNeri 5 points 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 03:42:29 ago (+5/-0)

He stole DOS not Windows from him

[ + ] The_Reunto

[ - ] The_Reunto 3 points 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 05:35:47 ago (+3/-0)

DOS was always the heart of the Windows operating system. The GUI was just the pretty box it came in.

[ + ] RevengeOfNeri

[ - ] RevengeOfNeri 3 points 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 06:33:39 ago (+3/-0)

While windows may have used some core routines from dos it was way more than a gui added on top

[ + ] RobertJHarsh

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 5 points 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 08:19:10 ago (+5/-0)*

Only when NT came along. 3.11 and 9x rode on top of DOS. The reason ME was such a shit heap was they tried to pull DOS functions out and put it into ME and it failed miserably. XP for the home user was supposed to be ME2 but it was so bad they couldn't sell it so they stripped out all the domain controller shit and renamed it XP. Ironically M$ created a secure and stable OS that worked so well they had to kill it off. There was zero reason why they couldn't be supporting XP today EXCEPT for creating shitloads of backdoors and usage info for any fuck who wants to buy it or break in without a warrant.

ZERO people on the face of the Earth, except the government, ever said "I can't wait for the next version of Windows to come out".

hashtag fuck4thamendment

[ + ] Sheitstrom

[ - ] Sheitstrom 1 point 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 09:44:44 ago (+1/-0)

Absolutely correct. After the XP source leak a few years ago I am still awaiting some new souped up XP to come out one of these Christmases...

[ + ] RobertJHarsh

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 0 points 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 10:48:45 ago (+0/-0)

Same here. There is a micropatching service for XP still around but I've heard that M$ does shit to patching to make that hard to do as well. At the end of the day, someone has got to get Linux on the desktop where most people can use it. It's the only way around this M$ fuckery.

[ + ] HonkyMcNiggerSpic

[ - ] HonkyMcNiggerSpic 0 points 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 13:41:41 ago (+0/-0)

Me too. Loved XP

[ + ] TheGreatWar

[ - ] TheGreatWar 2 points 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 07:40:15 ago (+2/-0)

And he stole it by paying for it.

[ + ] Cantaloupe

[ - ] Cantaloupe 0 points 4 monthsDec 20, 2023 02:15:20 ago (+0/-0)

Lol they stole windows from another guy from Xerox.

The Xerox guy was a legit genius

Bills mother probably fucked the IBM ceo and that's why he got the fist sale

[ - ] Panic 4 points 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 02:29:31 ago (+4/-0)

Dammit. Kildall would be a perfect Voat username. Alas, too late.

[ - ] sarkbear 1 point 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 11:45:38 ago (+1/-0)

However Gary Kildall had nothing to do with those. His company Digital Research created a CPM clone called DR-DOS. At the same time, Timothy Paterson created a CPM clone called Q-DOS.

That's kind of misleading. Digital Research was the developer of CP/M. DR-DOS isn't a clone of CP/M, it's a clone of MS/PC-DOS. It was released as the CP/M era was coming to a close in 1988. It could be fair to say CP/M-86, a different animal, eventually evolved into DR-DOS.

Q-DOS is kind of a look-alike of CP/M, but to say it was a clone is kind of a misnomer. A Ferrari and a Ford do similar things and may even share parts, but neither is a clone of the other.

[ - ] GreenSaint 1 point 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 06:55:14 ago (+2/-1)

Life isn’t fair. Winners write history. Exterminate all cats.

[ - ] Crackinjokes 0 points 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 15:57:25 ago (+0/-0)

He stole dos

The first windows programs for the PC was IBM Top view

The most popar and widespread and best one was

DeskQview by quarterdeck

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview

Then the Microsoft monopoly set in making windows the most widely sold.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 08:59:25 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] observation1 0 points 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 01:50:46 ago (+2/-2)

Thanks for archive link conspirologist. deserves an upvote

[ + ] Sheitstrom

[ - ] Sheitstrom 1 point 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 09:45:44 ago (+1/-0)

They never work for me, just loop forever.

[ + ] Fascinus

[ - ] Fascinus 2 points 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 11:51:54 ago (+2/-0)

Interesting.

Out of curiosity, have you tried using another browser?

Here is the source link if you want to check it out.

[ + ] Sheitstrom

[ - ] Sheitstrom 0 points 4 monthsDec 19, 2023 12:09:24 ago (+0/-0)