rahvin112
join:2002-05-24
Sandy, UT
| reply to tmc8080
I've never seen someone that was so woefully ignorant of history who then displayed that ignorance so acutely for everyone to witness and when corrected on that ignorance jumped at the opportunity to make themself the fool again.
Based on your comments it's clear that you are either very young or very stupid. I would suggest that you spend a little time studying a subject before you talk about it.
I won't speculate on what the first OS was for I don't know. UNIX came out IIRC in the late 60's, developed by some engineers at Bell Labs so they could play video games. DOS didn't come till the early 80's, and Microsoft purchased it (as mentioned above) to license to IBM solely so that they could sell their BASIC module to IBM to be included in the PC.
The IBM PC was also anything BUT proprietary. The computer was developed to be, and was constructed from commodity parts and contained only one piece that was patented. A piece (for which I can't remember the name) that was cloned by clean reverse engineering by Compaq and sold wholesale to anyone that wanted to build a clone. Had IBM not built their PC using commodity off the shelf parts the PC revolution would have been VASTLY different.
To call the IBM PC bloated is just plain ignorance and the words of a child. It was an elegant masterpiece considered in the context of what existed at the time. |
