in 1511307 20111018 150617 Jack wrote:
On 10/18/2011 2:56 AM, Bob Martin wrote:
Tim Daneliuk wrote:

Then IBM entered the market
and Microsoft came with them, for the first time producing an OS.

Until IBM entered the market, the market was bare.

You might want to mention that to the several millionaires that
were made producing OSs long before MS/IBM entered the party.
I personally know at least one.

There were operating systems LONG before the PC came along.

Yeah, and little market for DT/OS's until Gates bought his for the IBM
PC from Patterson for 100g's. Once that happened, the door was soon
closed on all competing DT/PC OS's. Gates and IBM made certain of that,
and the home PC market has been paying the price ever since.

UNIX was developed by Kernighan and Ritchie around 1975, long before
Gates bought his OS for the PC. Before that, things were rough, caveman
like. So rough, they decided to develop a low level programing
language, C, just to help code the OS. Pure genius, unlike Gates, who
is more of a dunce compared to these two. Windows still hasn't caught
up to UNIX after quarter century of work by the competent jerks at MS.

I was thinking of main-frames ...