Re: A82: Bill Gates

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Subject: Re: A82: Bill Gates
From: Cory Crooks <badman@velocity.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:13:14 +0000
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Actually, you should envy him much more for his business skills. As
legend goes, a few hours made all the difference between all the
computers in the world now running MS based stuff, rather than CP/M....


Kouri Rosenberg wrote:
> 
> Great, now we can hate (envy) him for his money AND his programming
> skills.
> 
> On Sun, 12 Apr 1998 16:26:51 EDT ADAMMAN106 <ADAMMAN106@aol.com> writes:
> >
> >In a message dated 98-04-12 15:50:02 EDT, you write:
> >
> >> Before Bill Gates got a computer he wrote a BASIC interpeter for
> >some old
> >>  computer on paper (without the possibility to test it). He later
> >sold it
> >>  to a company (it worked the first time !), and then he formed
> >Microsoft.
> >>  Most people on this list would not be able to do anything like
> >that.
> >
> >ouch, that's a hit to EVERY programmer in the world!
> >So this means he really is a god?
> >
> >~Adamman
> 
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Re: A82: Answers to misc. Q's (and how to crash back to TIOS in Ash)

From: ADAMMAN106 <ADAMMAN106@aol.com>

A82: Bill Gates

From: kouri@juno.com (Kouri Rosenberg)

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