Re: MS Excel Working As Designed

On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:19:14 +0000, Tyrone wrote:

On Jan 18, 2025 at 5:05:50 PM EST, "Physfitfreak"
<physfitfreak@gmail.com> wrote:
 

I think those Capones even killed the developer of what they copied
their DOS from. The Capones were afraid he'll one day, this time
successfully, sue them when court of law will get better adjusted to
new tech realities.

 
Absolute nonsense.
 
Microsoft BOUGHT 86-DOS from Tim Paterson (Seattle Computer Products)
for $25,000 in 1981. Microsoft also hired Tim.  86-DOS was a port of
CP/M (Z80/8080 CPU) to the 8086/8088 CPU used in the IBM-PC. 86-DOS
became MS-DOS.
 
At the time, CP/M was the standard. IBM first approached Digital
Research for CP/M for the PC, but Gary Kildall was not smart enough to
recognize an opportunity knocking on his door. IBM then approached
Microsoft for a DOS, because MS was already supplying the BASIC
programming language.  Bill Gates quickly agreed, even though they had
NOTHING at that point.
 
This is all well known history.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/18/how_windows_got_to_v3/


It has a link to even a longer article. My Luddite phase lasted until '93
so I went from MSDOS to Windows 3.1 without the intervening agony. Even
3.1 needed the Trumpet Winsock shareware if you expected to connect to
anytihng.