Microsoft købte DOS for hvor meget?!

Jeg har hørt det som en skrøne at Bill købte det fra et par gutter i en garage for forholdsvis få knaster...

Man får det nok aldrig at vide.

Udviklede de det ikke selv? Det har jeg i hvert fald hørt... og så prøvede de at sælge det til de store firmaer den gang, men de ville ikke have det. Nok deres største fejltagelse ever..

Kig her, der er lidt info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
Bemærk at der her menes MS-DOS

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Origins
MS-DOS was created by computer manufacturer Seattle Computer Products as 86-DOS, commonly known as QDOS. In a sequence of events that would later inspire much folklore, Microsoft licensed QDOS to IBM on behalf of SCP. Microsoft acquired the system from SCP shortly before the PC's release

Der er også lidt her:
http://www.acad.humberc.on.ca/~frig8279/osessay/dos/history

Indholdet på de to sider ligner hinanden, men måske er der nogle forskelle.

Kan dog huske at jeg, engang, læste at Bill G. + en kammerat(mener det var Steve Ballmer?) udviklede et DOS system for deres skole.
Det skulle vist være det første skridt på vejen til MS-DOS.

Bill Gates har ikke selv skrevet DOS, der var en portræt udsendelse, der viste, at han købte det af en syg afdanket og fordrukken software udvikler for 50.000 $, og selv finpudsede det med henblik på salg til IBM.

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Oprindeligt indlæg af Razorblade
Bill Gates har ikke selv skrevet DOS, der var en portræt udsendelse, der viste, at han købte det af en syg afdanket og fordrukken software udvikler for 50.000 $, og selv finpudsede det med henblik på salg til IBM.

Det er muligvis rigtigt.
Men Bill G. udviklede altså også et eller andet operativsystem for en skole han gik på.
Jeg er ret sikker på ovenstående, kan bare ikke huske hvor pokker jeg læste det? (Passer ikke, har nu læst en del artikler, hvis jeg har læst det har artiklen været fup og fidus)

EDIT: Har nu fundet en opgave om Bill G.
Der står at han lavede en masse programmering for netop en skole, sammen med hans buddies.
Heriblandt Paul Allen og ikke Ballmer, Ballmer dukker først op meget senere.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.html

Langt quote:

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At thirteen, Gates enrolled in Lakeside, a very strict, private school. Lakeside offered students the opportunity to explore their own interests. Gates would read far ahead in his classes giving himself free time to explore his interests in computers and business. When Gates was in eighth grade, Lakeside bought a teletype machine and computer time from a donation from the "Mothers Club" rummage sale. The system was an ASR-33 Teletype with paper type connected over a phone line to a GE computer. Mastering the operation of this machine became a contest between the students. Computer time was very expensive, and after a short time the donation from the "Mothers Club" was exhausted. Obtaining free computer time would become a main goal of Gates and his best friend, Paul Allen.

BASIC was the language run by the GE computer system. Gates and Allen would spend hours reading the BASIC manuals and teaching themselves the language. The two boys finally found a local business to pay for all their computer time. The company had a DEC machine which also ran BASIC. Gates and Allen would go to the Computer Center Corporation, C-Cubed, at night and look for computer bugs in exchange for computer time. Gates spent the next couple of years at the computer center teaching himself FORTRAN, LISP and PDP-10 machine language. The boys would not just look for bugs, but they would also study the operating system from discarded code they found in the trash. Two others, Ric Weiland and Kent Evans, joined Gates and Allen at the computing center and the four of them became addicted to learning everything they could about computers. These four youths called themselves the Lakeside Programming Group.

The Lakeside Programming Group was a profitable experience. The C-Cubed corporation eventually went bankrupt and Gates and his friends were forced to find another source of free computer time. The programming group found a company in Portland that used the same PDP-10 machine as C-Cubed. Gates contacted the company and persuaded it to let the group write a COBOL payroll program in exchange for free computer time. By coding this program, the group learned much about payroll, taxes and labor reports: business information that interested them.

A major event occurred during the coding of the payroll project. The other members of the group did not think the project was big enough for all four members and asked Gates to leave. Gates's response was "Look, if you (ever) want me to come back you have to let me be in charge. But this is a dangerous thing, because if you put me in charge this time, I'm going to want to be in charge forever after" (Bill Gates Interview, 8). The group reconsidered and agreed to Gates's terms and the payroll project was completed on time. Gates's confidence and self-assurance began to blossom.

Other job opportunities came to the Lakeside Programming Group. The boys did a scheduling system for Lakeside school and were paid $4,200.00. They also coded "Traf-O-Data" for the Washington State Road Department. This program tabulated readings from pressure hoses on roadways which determined the location of traffic lights and how to distribute road repair funds.

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Her er det Razorblade skriver om, der står dog ikke noget om at programmøren var afdanket eller noget.

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Microsoft moved to the forefront of the burgeoning microcomputer industry in 1980, when IBM, one of the world’s largest Manufacturers of electronic and electronic office machines, contacted Gates about devising an operation system for the personal computer it was then planning. Uncertain wheatear his young company, it returned to gates, how paid $50,000 to a Seattle programmer called Tim Paterson for the rights to a rudimentary system called Q-DOS, for "quick and dirty operating system". Gates modified Paterson’s program, added some new features, and renaming it Microsoft Disk Operative System, or MS-DOS, he sold it to IBM.

BTW: Får stadig popups i forum.

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Kan dog huske at jeg, engang, læste at Bill G. + en kammerat(mener det var Steve Ballmer?) .

Ikke Ballmer...Steve Jobs som grundlagde Apple...

har engang læst i et komputer for alle at B.G. og hans kammi købte det af en fætter (kan ikke huske hvem) for ca. 5 dollar...

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Oprindeligt indlæg af WinterSilence

Ikke Ballmer...Steve Jobs som grundlagde Apple...

Læs hele min post, jeg har "rettet" det.
Har dog ikke fjernet noget af den oprindelige post.
Det er jo som regel godt at se hvorfor jeg laver en ændring.
Men det står her:

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EDIT: Har nu fundet en opgave om Bill G.
Der står at han lavede en masse programmering for netop en skole, sammen med hans buddies.
Heriblandt Paul Allen og ikke Ballmer, Ballmer dukker først op meget senere.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.html