"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 03/05/15 23:01, Huge wrote:
On 2015-05-03, bert wrote:
In article . com,
"Dennis@home" writes
On 01/05/2015 00:23, Simon Brown wrote:

I'd say the real breakthroughs there the transistor, and after that
the
integrated circuit.

Sure, but other stuff like VisiCalc was too. So was Linux.

Linux was and still is just a copy of something that already existed,
its hardly a breakthrough to copy something.
You mean like MSDOS and most of the other stuff from Micro****

MS-DOS wasn't written by Microsoft.

It was ultimately.

I forget what Gates bought, but it was only a starting point. PCDOS was
the result and IBM had a fair hand in that IIRC.

No they didnt, they bought it from Gates.

NSDOS was a later evolution, and was vastly more code than the original
system

But Microsoft has always been beyond teh early days a marketing company,
not a technical company.

But even IBM got them to do the first OS/2.

Hardly surprising given the abortion they produced with Topview.