Oh Ivan, my dear Ivan,
where you've been all night?
Where you've been all night?
You haven't been to your darling's place…
Haven't been to my darling's place,
didn't see my pals,
my sweet girl,
don't be angry with me
Don't be angry with me,
that I didn't come to you,
that I didn't make it over,
I found myself on the street,
playing fiddle all night down on the street!
Scottish tribal pipes & drums band Clanadonia
playing "Ya Bassa"
during St Andrew's Day event 2019
Of course not.
Bill Gates sold Xenix from SCO as the first Microsoft OS
Then they bough SEADOS from Seattle Computer Products and rebranded it as MS-DOS
And then, Gates and Jobs visited Xerox PARC, took detailed notes on the STAR and Smalltalk system, then had their people implement a similar point and click OS.
Meanwhile AT&T was using Honeywell GCOS and when the saw what Honeywell's next OS (MULTICS) was like (an abortion of complexity) they rebelled and made a simpler GCOS called UNIX. That was damn good, spawned a few imitations, then clones and finally two branches, BSD and Linux. Both are still used today although Linux has better PR.
Ericsson saw UNIX and that it was good but the processes were to unwieldy and the process model incomplete. So they built the BEAM virtual machine and Erlang to write code for it. For a long time this was even more scalable that UNIX/Linux and still is going strong although now Elixir is the more popular language.
Meantime the Linux world sprouted dozens of overlapping and conflicting platforms but it does useful work for all of them.
IBM invented personal computers and software.
They wanted a cheaper OS so they licenced CP/M but Microsoft came along and offered MS-DOS for a lower price. MS-DOS was called SEADOS when it was created by a small company called Seattle Computer Products.
Really, you would think people on a board named QResearch could do a little bit of actual RESEARCH and not just spew rumor and innuendo.
I don't mind the Clown shills on here because they are so obviously pathetic
But the morons who call themselves patriots and say "Hi boss" when Q posts, they make me vomit. A bunch of morons and losers who think there is some magic in posting the proof of their ignorance on a public forum.
You're right about that.
The original computers were pure software
Long before anyone ever imagined that hardware could do the job too.