From: SeeSignature@EndOfText (G.S. Vigneault)
Subject: Re: M2 history - relations to Ada
Date: 1999/02/04
Date: 1999-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36b99363.29748070@nntp.netcom.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 79c1lk$nub$1@remarQ.com
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:50:47 +0300, "news.oxy.com"
<Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com> wrote:
>David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote in message ...
>>news.oxy.com wrote in message <79bp1n$fd5$1@remarQ.com>...
>><large snip>
>>>How about that, then! First "Windows" was created before Bill Gates wrote
>>>his "DOS" for IBM PC.
>>Just one small point of clarification about this "history:"
>>Gates didn't write DOS. Microsoft, which had been writing language
>>translators -- e.g., BASIC and FORTRAN -- _bought_ DOS from Seattle
>Computer
>>Products.
>
>
>This is very good clarification indeed !
>Probably a lot of people just do not know about this.
>For them Bill Gates, Microsoft and DOS are all the same legend.
>
>
Not a "legend" -- a "legacy" !!
Greg_
http://www.netcom.ca/~telic
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-22 0:00 Time to join the fold? Mike Silva
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-04 0:00 ` M2 history - relations to Ada news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chuck Clark
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Borchert
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Grant Edwards
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-04 0:00 ` G.S. Vigneault [this message]
1999-02-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) nabbasi
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-02-02 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Modula 2 William Clodius
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Time to join the fold? Pat Rogers
1999-01-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-01-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Pascal MALAISE
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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