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From: "news.oxy.com" <Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com>
Subject: Re: M2 history - relations to Ada
Date: 1999/02/04
Date: 1999-02-04T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <79c1lk$nub$1@remarQ.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: kBER3sCU#GA.155@pet.hiwaay.net


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.


Regards,
Vladimir Olensky
(vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com)
(Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com)
Telecommunication specialist,
Occidental C.I.S. Service, Inc. ( www.oxy.com )
Moscow,
Russia.








  reply	other threads:[~1999-02-04  0:00 UTC|newest]

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           ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
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                     ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-04  0:00                       ` news.oxy.com [this message]
1999-02-04  0:00                         ` G.S. Vigneault
1999-02-04  0:00                         ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
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                       ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04  0:00                         ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-05  0:00                         ` Grant Edwards
1999-02-04  0:00                     ` Chuck Clark
1999-02-10  0:00                       ` Andreas Borchert
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                     ` 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?) Al Christians
1999-02-02  0:00                     ` 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 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-23  0:00   ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24  0:00     ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-24  0:00       ` Tom Moran
1999-01-23  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-23  0:00   ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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