[aklug] Re: PowerShell

* Jim MacDonald <jim@macdonald.org> [121009 21:14]:

> Sorry for the one liners all day, I wasn't in a place where I
> could properly respond but I'd like to take a moment to do just
> that, From my perspective as a professional Unix admin I'd like to
> point out that MS got it's start by purchasing a stripped version
> of an OS. Stripped in such a way that they took a basic UNIX like
> OS and stripped all the networking capability out of it to make a
> PC OS.
 
 Hmm! The story I *heard* is that Mr. Gates purchased an OS called
 QDOS, already fully coded by a Seattle programmer for about 50
 grand.
 
 I don't know where I heard it, but I think it is safe to say
 that M$ - for good (unlikely) or for bad (more likely) - built (or
 purchased) an OS made from scratch. Not that there is anothing
 wrong with that :).

-- 
Tim 
tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com
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