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willie959

didn't know about the Maxwell connection, but bankers, Mossad, etc... not a surprise.

plus Bill Gates' mother arranged with the IBM CEO that Bill would win IBM's contract for a new OS for their new PCs. MS didn't even have an OS ready.

cnbc.com/2020/08/05/how-bill-gā€¦


How Bill Gates' mom helped Microsoft get a deal with IBM in 1980 ā€“ and it propelled the company's huge success

Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University in 1975 to start Microsoft, the software company that would make him a billionaire by age 31.
Taylor Locke (CNBC)
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willie959

yea, again not surprised. MS was evil even back then. My first PC 'clone' 2. or 3.something. Small utilities would come out as shareware (donation-ware) if it became popular, MS would soon have it built into the OS, putting independent coders out of business, must have been extremely frustrating as a coder back then.

MS was never first or innovative ever on anything. They took someone else's work and made the same thing and let their marketing and their hold on businesses do the rest. Lotus, Borland, Wordstar, WordPerfect, Netscape... all replaced by inferior crap with clippy.

Windows 3.1, what a freakin' joke. I never understood, except marketing.

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Nanook

@willie959 I got to tell you a story about Bill Gates in the early days. Back in the early 80's there were a handful of dial-up BBS's, bulletin board systems. One of them was written and run by a fellow named Jeff Prothero who went by the name Cynbe Ru Taran. His BBS was unique as it was a room system written in C, the popular language for BBS's in that day was BASIC, usually Microsoft BASIC which actually was a port of Dartmouth BASIC. I had disassembled the Z-80 version to see how the interpreter worked, and wrote a similar language that had communications extensions, but in the process I discovered two things, one the keyboard scan routine consumed a horrid 40% of available CPU time, I fixed that, and val(%something) would cause BASIC to explode. I fixed that. Bill Gates and I were both users of this BBS and had some communications. I offered him my fixes absolutely free, he refused them. Would have made MS Basic run 40% faster for millions of users and fixed a nasty bug, would have cost him nothing. So that was my early introduction to the type of person he was.
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