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...

IIRC the Windows "concept" dates back to Xerox (PARC lab).

-jc-