Gary Kildall the real maker of MS-Dos

'I am not like that' A recent wrote of the movie antitrust made in 2001, 'it is very hard to image that this is not B... G....' 'I am not like that' 'B... G.... who?'
It turned out to be crime after crime, one after another.

Like S.... B.... said, ' i did it before and i will do it again '

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[LegoLoverFilms]

@LAG09 and of course I mean "an operating system," not "operating systems."

[LegoLoverFilms]

@LAG09 Yeah I've built operating systems in Assembly before, much similar to DOS. I didn't mean it took a long time, but it sure wasn't simple.

So sure, he copied the design. But not the code.

[LAG09]

@LegoLoverFilms A long time? Now you're probably thinking about an operating much more complex than DOS or CP/M because those were extremely basic operating systems. Those early operating systems could have been in about a week and QDOS did stand for Quick and Dirty Operating System.

Also, programming stuff in Assembly isn't THAT difficult, I've programmed some stuff in Assembly myself.

[LegoLoverFilms]

@LAG09 (late reply)

That is true, but he only copied the design. He had to re-write the operating system, which takes a long time. Plus he had to write it in assembly, which is fairly complex.

[LAG09]

@LegoLoverFilms It's debatable when he based it on a CP/M manual he bought from Radioshack for a few dollars. Would you consider somebody copying someone else's test answers the original author of said answers?

Hell, QDOS was even short for Quick and Dirty Operating System.

[LegoLoverFilms]

"Gary Kildall the real maker of MS-Dos"

No.

Gary Kildall wrote CP/M. Tim Patterson, an engineer at Seattle Computer Products, wrote an operating system similar to CP/M called QDOS. QDOS was bought by Microsoft in 1981 and remade into MS-DOS. So Tim Patterson is the real maker of MS-DOS.

[balancebalance]

i wouldn't go as far as to compare them to the third Reich, but there OS is expensive. oh and what that hell is that groaning sound? it sound like a zombie from half life 2

[pimmybicycle]

sad but true

[craysteve032]

And he

loves you, and every keypress you type on your pc, he enjoys you and

everything you see on your screen.

A keypress takes up a single byte, 400 kilobyte means 400 * 1024

bytes, just say 400.000 keypresses. And how long does it take to

extract so many keypresses from your pc?

With a 2 megabit connection (400 kb/s) you can easily extract months

of typing work in a fraction of a second.