Posted on 07/27/2011 8:42:18 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Command line admins are expensive. GUI admins are cheap.
It costs a little more to get someone who knows why they're doing what they're doing.
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It really did run Windows better than DOS. I recall back then I was using AOL, and the script kiddies used to like to IM bomb people they didn’t like. Windows would always crash running under DOS. Windows on OS/2 didn’t even bat an eye. I used to like to laugh at them when their attack failed. Pissed the little twerps off to no end.
Joshua: “Greetings Dr. Falken. Shall we play a game?”
It costs a little more to get someone who knows why they're doing what they're doing.
You get what you pay for. Most MS-Windows admins I know could be replaced by a small shell script.
As a business owner all I care about is whether the server is up and how much it costs to keep it that way. Many times its cheaper to rebuild the server than sit and troubleshoot why the 1’s are where the 0’s should be.
Not to mention most unix admins I know are primadonna’s.
Makes a guy want to go fishing.
shades of paper tape readers and a bucketful of bits
GIGO still applies.. :-]
It was a great day when Microsoft was finally able to figure out how to mass-produce 1s.
I still have a copy of DOS 3.3 in a box somewhere. 5.25” floppies, baby.
And then they had to go and patent them.
LOAD “*”,8,1
My brother had an Altair 8800 for a while, and that's what he used to do.
Actually... Gates got it from Xerox... as well as the mouse.
LLS
Bingo!
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
Actually, no, he didn't. He got Windows from Xerox, but not MS-DOS.
You are correct... but Gates still basically stole DOS.
http://inventors.about.com/od/computersoftware/a/Putting-Microsoft-On-The-Map.htm
“Gary Kildall
As for an operating system (OS) for an IBM computer, since Microsoft had never written an operating system before, Gates had suggested that IBM investigate an OS called CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers), written by Gary Kildall of Digital Research. Kindall had his Ph.D. in computers and had written the most successful operating system of the time, selling over 600,000 copies of CP/M, his operating system set the standard at that time.
The Secret Birth of MS-DOS
IBM tried to contact Gary 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 a new operating system, one that would eventually wipe Gary 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.
However, ironically QDOS was based on Gary Kildall’s CP/M. Tim 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 legally a different product. Microsoft bought the rights to QDOS for $50,000, keeping the IBM & Microsoft deal a secret from Tim Paterson and his company, Seattle Computer Products.”
LLS
Reminds me of the old joke, “What do you get when you cross Lee Iacocca with a Vampire? autoexec.bat”
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