Re: PDP-11 OS Release Dates

From: Mikael Cardell (mc_at_hack.org)
Date: 08/07/03 

Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:35:35 +0200

jmfbahciv@aol.com writes:

> Everybody has to learn about I/O and memory management. What might
> work stand-alone with one flavor of program, will not work for
> others. If they had learned the do's and don'ts of I/O which was
> in every program on the -10, the lore would have carried over to
> DOS and Windows.

I understand now. I agree completely that every programmer has to
learn these things.

However, I don't think Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the original authors
of MS/Altair BASIC, had much to do with the programming of MS DOS or
MS Windows. I would be very surprised if Gates had even looked at the
code of any part of, say, MS Windows.

My guess is that Bill was mainly a manager type and Paul was out
playing venture capitalist, sponsoring basketball teams and playing
with his home hacking stuff. I really doubt anyone of them had
anything to do with programming Microsoft products after the BASIC for
Altair.

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