From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f8c65,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,f25e853f410d55da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,88e117cf43230b41 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public From: SeeSignature@EndOfText (G.S. Vigneault) Subject: Re: M2 history - relations to Ada Date: 1999/02/04 Message-ID: <36b99363.29748070@nntp.netcom.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 440563671 References: <78abg4$cnc$1@its.hooked.net> <78i8s4$hth$1@its.hooked.net> <78iq2m$br9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <794gg7$ib$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7963q0$ail$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7973lb$mdl$1@remarQ.com> <797hjv$ivm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7992oe$ram$1@remarQ.com> <79bp1n$fd5$1@remarQ.com> <79c1lk$nub$1@remarQ.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@netcom.ca X-Trace: tor-nn1.netcom.ca 918131650 207.181.83.237 (Thu, 04 Feb 1999 07:34:10 EDT) Organization: Netcom Canada NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 07:34:10 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3 Date: 1999-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:50:47 +0300, "news.oxy.com" wrote: >David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote in message ... >>news.oxy.com wrote in message <79bp1n$fd5$1@remarQ.com>... >> >>>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