I read in a newspaper that Bill Gates is not the one who made up windows, and that it was some other guy, I can't thinkof his name right now though. But do you think that is true?
I read in a newspaper that Bill Gates is not the one who made up windows, and that it was some other guy, I can't thinkof his name right now though. But do you think that is true?
IIRC, Microsoft and Apple both took Xerox's example and created GUI operating systems (Been a while since I read about it... I think perhaps Apple bought Xerox's system...don't recall exactly).
In any case, there were a team of developers for Microsoft who designed windows. By that time Gates was just the man in charge, not a developer.
Are you thinking of this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...user_interface
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So basicly everybody got the idea from everbody. Sortof?
Well, he didn't write DOS, which Windows originally revolved around.
>Well, he didn't write DOS, which Windows originally revolved around.
Most of their stuff is from acqusitians(sp)
Hmm
Basically all he actually wrote was BASIC.
(I think.)
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Yeah, Bill Gates wrote BASIC with Paul Allen I believe. The GUI originated from Xerox PARC --> Apple --> Microsoft Windows. Apple sues Microsoft for their GUI relativity, but Apple loses.Originally Posted by elnerdo
As time went on for Microsoft, there came a lot of Microsofties that came up with ideas and programmed a lot. Bill Gates was just the business coordinator and the guy that made sure everyone at Microsoft was working as hard as they can to pull through the projects.
So basicly Gates just came into the matter becouse he had the bucks to do it?
But it was a very memory-efficient copy of BASIC.Originally Posted by elnerdo
Not really that so much, but he was smart enough to do it correctly. It's not like Xerox and Apple are/were rinkydink little companies.
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But a regular person couldn't come in and done what he did, could they have?
You mean like some random guy off the street? Probably not. Gates obviously isn't some random person, though. I don't think he was what you'd call loaded at that point in time.
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Umm...wasn't Bill Gates a "regular person"? Bill Gates is the cocreator of Microsoft, that's it.
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