- Bill Gates implies he invented the PC. Interesting speech in Korea.
- I chatted with Sumner Redstone. He is one tough cookie.
- Microhoo story continues.
- Yahoo teaming up with McAfee.
- Silicon wafers pushing to 450mm.
- Consumer Reports gives Apple top ranking.
- Neil Young is a fan of Java?
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Sometimes the players look different. Is there a pattern to this?
Bill Gates also remembered how he drove to IBM under sniper fire.
No, PARC can take a lot more credit for that.
Gates popularized it.
I truly wonder if we are any better off for it though. The way Gates and Co. used their monopoly to stifle competition, etc.
Additionally, the microphone sounds very good. Can’t really tell the difference between this broadcast and previous broadcasts from the states.
A little more about Gates inventing the PC. Everyone knows that it was a great deal of good fortune that allowed Gates and Co. to get into the PC market. If Gary Kildall had been a little more on the ball, PC’s would be running a version of CP/M and we would all be saying “Gates who?”
Al Gore invented the PC.
And he controls the weather.
The facts are indisputable and the time for debate is over.
George Bush invented the lie that Al Gore was a liar. His dupes just kept repeating it.
As for Gates, of course he didn’t invent the PC. I had three of them before my first MS DOS machine.
If anyone wants to see where computing would have gone without Microsoft, see this link.
It’s the GEM interface over CP/M
http://tinyurl.com/8f3eh
I saw this back in the day. The demo had a word processor, scheduling app, spreadsheet, and something else all running concurrently in different windows with the ability to copy and paste data from one window to the other.
Back in 1985.
#7 CP/M was first. Microsoft’s first PC product was PCDos 1.0, which was a flat file system for floppy disks, designed for the IBM PC. It was based on Seattle Computing’s DOS. Product #2 was DOS 2.0, which had subdirectories (everyone calls them folders now), and worked on a hard disk. Somewhere in there MSDOS (not IBM PC specific) and GWBasic were created. Windows 1.0 and 2.O were DOS applications (not OSes), and they didn’t work very well. Windows 3.0 was better, but Win 3.1 was more stable and usable. You all should know the rest of the story.
Hey John,
The sound quality is much better today, although the volume’s still a bit too soft compared to the sound effects at the beginning and end. I’m also still a little thrown off by the “Mevio” outro, but I’m sure I’ll get used to that.
gates handler: just run with it. these koreans will believe anything we tell them.
korean: these americans must think we’re idiots. (claps politely)
Will Ferrel’s doing announcements for the TSA?
Will Ferrel is doing announcements for the TSA?
WHY DOES THE ANNOYING FISH TANK SOUND PERSIST WHILE YOU ARE AWAY FROM HOME.
#10, Pedro. Yea I saw that too. It was real nice and essentially the same as GEO over CP/M. Therefore, if Microsoft and Dos never existed, other OS’s, which were every bit as capable or better, would have filled the void.
Apple has best tech support? My iTouch refuses to connect to my network. I call Apple support. The tech says I should not run with WEP encryption. How’s that for good tech support? Oh, even though I have three other pc’s connected and a PDA connected, he says I should contact the DSL modem manufacturer. This is the ONLY device that won’t connect! Yep, that’s #1 alright.
It’s not a matter of who’s computer OS was first, but whos was best at that time. I looked at Apple, Atari, IBM and Commodore back in 1985… and Commodore’s AmigaDOS offered more for the price; color graphics, stereo sound, more floppy disk capacity and an easy to learn scripting language for simple DOS tasks. Not so secretive a closed OS that one needed the permission of the maker to customize.
And if Commodore’s CEO hadn’t been so corrupt and milked the company for his own enrichment, the Amiga would have easily been the third platform of choice. But between him, the company’s treasurer and Motorola, it’s future fizzled, just as the early Macintosh did, for a time, without Jobs. IBM clones mostly won by default. And Microsoft had written software for both Apple and Commodore, so it got their computers to play around with and copy the best ideas of each GUI. MSDOS was a reworking of Seattle Computing’s QDOS after Gates bought it cheap. Windows came much later after other platforms developed the GUI concept.
I’ve always wonder if Gates ever paid Dartmouth College any royalties for “copying” their version of BASIC that he boiled down to work on the Altair? Gates was always so touchy about the guys at computer clubs, passing around tapes of his software. I could understand that if he did the right thing and paid for the source code himself. But if not (as I suspect), then he’s one to call the kettle black.
Bill didn’t invent the PC, he just made it run slower.
Bill Gates was A or even THE key part of the PC revolution, ya h8erz lol.
Little history lesson: Each step was crucial. Some steps are left out for brevity. I am not writing a novel in a comment for your benefit.
IBM made a little computer BIOS. (There were others, of course — I told you I don’t have time for a novel.)
COMPAQ reverse engineered the little BIOS and shared the info with the legions of CLONE makers.
Microsoft acquired rights from IBM to write an OS to talk to the little BIOS, they wrote BASIC (Bill’s FAV) and they wrote apps too.
Yes there were other little BIOSes and BASICs and computer architectures. Apple didn’t invite the other kids to their 6502 party and kept the door shut to the 68000 party as well. So the party happened where it could – path of least resistance.
Microsoft’s decisions, Gate’s decisions, resulted in the creation of legions of clone makers competing with each other on price and performance and game software and business productivity software likewise enjoyed similar dynamics.
You don’t get massively rich for making nothing you twits.
Take that ya h8erz.
The rise of the clones was the element missing from all the other small computer architectures.
The rise of the clones was the key to the kingdom of the PC.
Bill Gates co-invented the PC with Compaq and Intel. It’s because he and the other two all made the one ring to bind all these clones.
Below the OS, a variety of hardware could be mixed and matched without disrupting software stuff that lived above the OS.
And above the OS, a variety of software could be mixed and matched without disrupting hardware stuff that lived below the OS.
Bill’s operating system gave the architecture the level of indirection and information hiding at the bridge between these two worlds. Sorta like the gates to Hades.
Anyway it’s the isolation between these two tiers which could independently be modified without breaking the other tier, which Bill Gates is more responsible for than any other person in the world.
Do you remember the Apple II clone market? Good luck with that.
Do you remember the Atari 800 clone market? I didnt think so.
Do you remember the Amiga, C64 clone markets? Nope.
The clone industry below the belt, and the software industry above the belt, with just one invariant OS binding them together, were the keys to the PC kingdom. It was Gates’ OS that was the golden key.
Legendary musician Neil Young uses Java to provide navigation capabilities for his HiFi 24 / 192 music on Blu ray disks. He explains it well in a 10 minute ZDNet video. Let’s see if his PS3 endorsement makes sales explode!
Interesting video… Neil Young fans will be ecstatic.
AND I INVENTED PR!!!
Are you ready kids??
AYE! AYE! BALLMER!
I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!
AYE! AYE! BALLMER!
Ohhhhh….
Who lives in an ivory tower under the sea?
SPONGEBILL PCPANTS!
Absorbant and self-deluded is he
SPONGEBILL PCPANTS!
If Vista nonsense is something that gets you pXssed
SPONGEBILL PCPANTS!
Then drop on the platform and founder like a fish
SPONGEBILL PCPANTS!
Ready?
SPONGEBILL PCPANTS!
SPONGEBILL PCPANTS!
SPONGEBILL PCPAAAAANTS!
AND I INVENTED PR!!!
Are you ready kids??
AYE! AYE! BALLMER!
I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!
AYE! AYE! BALLMER!
Ohhhhh….
Who lives in an ivory tower under the sea?
SPONGEBILL PCPANTS!
Absorbant and self-deluded is he
SPONGEBILL PCPANTS!
If Vista nonsense is something that gets you pXssed
SPONGEBILL PCPANTS!
Then upgrade the platform and founder like a fish
SPONGEBILL PCPANTS!
Ready?
SPONGEBILL PCPANTS!
SPONGEBILL PCPANTS!
SPONGEBILL PCPAAAAANTS!
>>You don’t get massively rich for making
>>nothing you twits.
Not unless you’re Bill Gates.
#24
There actually was a Apple II clone, made by a company called Franklin. I remember seeing a Apple II clone called a “Orange” once, don’t know who made it.
There was also the pineapple apple 2 clone
X2 doesn’t cut it for a talking head, sans head. Lose the fish. Lose the X-Y stereo. Roll off the bass more. And move the mike closer, like a proper lav, or the desk mic that’s ruled for seventy years.
Then get to the fine points, like padding your tabletop. C’mon – you’re a pro.
>>Lose the fish.
Keep the fish.