On the bill gates biography it says "Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer" but did he use this language to make windows?
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Jump to PostThank you for that information. My generation hoarded clock cycles like misers. I've just come back to coding after a long absence and I'm horrified at what looks like sheer carelesness and bloat. It looks like 3 megabytes is the new 16k.
I'm that way too -- I was agast …
Jump to PostActually, all versions of Windows before Win95 (not counting the versions of Windows NT) ran on top of MSDOS.
Even Win95 and Win98 (and probably even WinME) had remnants of MSDOS hidden away underneath. That's why they were far flakier and insecure than NT.
Jump to Postbut they're actually useful, and should be stolen and imitated by others.
the search idea was stolen ages ago from linux
Jump to PostI'm that way too -- I was agast at the bloated code that young programmers write professionally a few years ago. When I asked why not write more efficient code the response was "so what? its user interface and doesn't need to be optimized". Well, they paid dearly for that …
Jump to Postthe search idea was stolen ages ago from linux
Perhaps you're right, because I don't know enough about Linux to know whether it had a background indexing service (yes I know about grep, awk and and other command line searching and parsing utilities, as I'm also a Unix programmer, but …
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