[serverguy]

Originally Posted by computeruler

can hire him for a low price cause he has nothing else to do!

Apart from the fact that he is trying to cure AIDS, and is one of the largest single donators in the world - the Gates foundation will be the biggest charity organisation when they get Warren Buffets donation.

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx

I think that would take up most of his time.

[computeruler]

w()()7!! go gates!! mabye he the op can talk to bill through video caolls or something like that

[MJM]

Maybe we should consider the fact that MS bought their OS and didn't make it themselves...

There was not really any other OS in his times...

[crystalclaw]

[QUOTE=MJM;88695]If I am completely honest, except for a few exceptions, a person should never write an OS on his own.

agreed. i'm 13, but i would love to join a team over the internet. in fact, i was just about to start something like that myself.

[cheesepuff]

there was a guy willing to invest with me a few $1000 with me to create a OS specifically for gaming. but i just dont have the programing skill to take on such a task. plus with things like Direct X and drivers and such, i think we would violate a lot of Ula's and cope writes and to overcome that would take a lot of money. it would be cool to make though.

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Originally Posted by Bubba

I can't help you as far as technical advice is concerned but I CAN tell you one thing, if you DON'T try you will NEVER know. I say go for it. I know a guy who lived off beanie weenies and Kraft Mac and cheese (an American thing if you don't know what those are lol) for three years, with a wife and kid, while he wrote a program for processing medical records. He was in debt up past his dic......... waist, when he finished and then made a few million. Isn't the SAS motto "Those who dare win"?

Go for broke dude and don't look back. If it turns out to be a bust you will know you gave it your best. If it works out (like we all think it will) then we can say we knew you when you were a little feller just thinking about it. A famous American General, George Patton said,"Never give council to your fears." I prefer, "damn the torpedo's full speed ahead." but they mean the same thing.

Warp speed Mr. Sulu.

Good luck and send me a free copy when you get it done.

I'll have a copy too. Haha, and it's "Who Dares Wins", or so is speculated but same deal. I think the 'real' one as it were is "Train Hard, Fight Easy" or something along those lines.

Originally Posted by thingie2

oh, ok, is that Legal though?

Originally Posted by MJM

Maybe we should consider the fact that MS bought their OS and didn't make it themselves...

There was not really any other OS in his times...

Didn't he buy Word from IBM, because they couldn't sell it, he changed the name nothing else and started off his billions? I thought M$ did make DOS themselves.

Originally Posted by computeruler

bill retired mabye he can hire him for a low price cause he has nothing else to do!

You honestly reckon he did much of the programming when he was working there?!

[MJM]

Originally Posted by 4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie

I thought M$ did make DOS themselves.

Nope, they bought it, then worked on it. But not as the original developer intended. Many programs which were just short fixes were kept alive in MSDOS for ages.

IBM tried to contact Kildall for a meeting, executives met with Mrs. Kildall who refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement. IBM soon returned to Bill Gates and gave Microsoft the contract to write the new operating system, one that would eventually wipe Kildall's CP/M out of common use.

The "Microsoft Disk Operating System" or MS-DOS was based on QDOS, the "Quick and Dirty Operating System" written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, for their prototype Intel 8086 based computer.

QDOS was based on Gary Kildall's CP/M, Paterson had bought a CP/M manual and used it as the basis to write his operating system in six weeks, QDOS was different enough from CP/M to be considered legal.

Microsoft bought the rights to QDOS for $50,000, keeping the IBM deal a secret from Seattle Computer Products.