Submitted 6 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://computerhistory.org/blog/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system/
One Friday afternoon, Gary called the engineering staff together and announced that he would give them all a raise over the weekend. On Monday, when they returned to work, contractors began raising the building to make room in the basement for a new Digital Equipment Corporation VAX 11/750 computer system. After several weeks, supported by heavy wooden beams and house jacks, the engineers’ desks were five feet higher.
I’d have loved to work for him!
Nobody’s ever has a bad time with PCOS!
10 PRINT “HELLO”; 20 GOTO 10;
Well, the compiler didn’t complain, so I checked it in.
Semicolons?
I’m too fucking old to remember if I needed those or not, so I thought WTF and just threw him in there.
That’s how long I’ve been programming, so long that I can’t even remember the syntax anymore. 😋
Did you just claim copyright on two of the most common lines of code ever written?
Like when AT&T copyrighted /bin/true
I’m a sucker for copy and paste. /shrug
was cp/m really that good? never used it and all of the media I’ve seen of it looks like just another variant of dos. i grew up using dos, and I use the shell for a lot of stuff at work all the time these days, but i think most people prefer to interact via a gui
I think you mean DOS looks like a variant of CP/M, because DOS started as a clone of CP/M.
Because DOS is an illegal copy of CP/M, but with a few features removed. And yes CP/M was way better, and had for instance multitasking way before MS-DOS. And it had filesystem safety, the lack of which caused decades of security nightmares on PC.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Gary Kildall was so depressed he committed suicide, because Bill Gates (Microsoft) stole his OS and used it and his mothers position in IBM to undercut him, and he couldn’t do anything about it.
scorpious@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wat
Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Gary Kildall’s lawyer later stated Gary Kildall lacked the tenacity Bill Gates had, because he didn’t sue based on same lawyers legal advice, that software probably wasn’t legally protected by copyright.
If you don’t know, QDOS was copied from CP/M, and Microsoft bought QDOS and relabeled it MS-DOS, and sold it to IBM as PC-DOS. Main difference being that Microsoft removed the few safety features that were present in CP/M, causing decades of nightmares with bad security and viruses.