On Thu, 05 May 2005 16:00:22 GMT, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
wrote:


"Cliff" wrote in message
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On Thu, 05 May 2005 06:16:53 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

On Wed, 04 May 2005 20:17:12 GMT, "Michael"
wrote:

One could probably argue for Gates

Keep in mind he did write an operating system

What one?

If Michael meant DOS, he didn't. He stole that from Digital Research's
CP/M. Minor modifications was all he did to the original. I could
recognize much of the code in the BIOS, line-for-line.

If he meant Windows -- well, he had the system written in-house, but he
ripped that methodology off from Mac... so...

And they, in turn, had sort of copied from either MIT's
X-Windows or PARC at Xerox.

Recall the "look & feel" suits?
--
Cliff