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Re: There’s a $200k reward for anyone who proves Microsoft ripped off MS-DOS source

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Post by rbanffy » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 8:20 AM UTC

groovy2shoes wrote: post #70

rbanffy wrote: post #57

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Possibly, but I would assume that he was referring to fairly unique features of CP/M, code that was never released under a free license, that were mimicked by QDOS in order to make it easier to port software to it, or, maybe, because they were a genuinely useful idea. At that time, the separation of of portable and non portable parts of an OS (CP/M ran on very different and fairly incompatible machines) was quite rem…

> At that time, the separation of of portable and non portable parts of an OS (CP/M ran on very different and fairly incompatible machines) was quite remarkable On microcomputers, perhaps, but not on computers in general. Unix is a well-known example of an OS that did this, with the hardware-dependent parts mostly confined to a small amount of assembly language and much of the C source platform-independent. This was…

That's true, of course. That doesn't make his accomplishment, to pull this off on severely limited machines, any less remarkable. And that's not mentioning he wrote the language to do it.

Re: There’s a $200k reward for anyone who proves Microsoft ripped off MS-DOS source

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Post by brazzledazzle » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 9:04 PM UTC

dorkalorka wrote: post #59

brazzledazzle wrote: post #53

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It might be more charitable to assume that it's a reference to the perception that women are more emotional. I'm not saying that perception is valid or invalid but it's certainly more neutral than "women are weaker than men". That said it could be an artifact of a time where it was acceptable to say that kind of stuff. Like watching old movies reading old articles can be a bit jarring at times. But getting upset with…

Certainly not upset at the person for posting it, I admit i see how it could have come across that way. To your point, this isn't from 1950 or even 1975. It's recent.

I've watched plenty of movies from the late 90's and early 2000's that have outrageous sexism and slurs against homosexuals. Watching something you remember being funny that has that type of content is incredibly awkward. It's kind of weird to think about but 2006 was 10 years ago and a lot can change in that time frame.

I'm not saying it wasn't a sexist comment or that if it was that Joel has changed. But I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Re: There’s a $200k reward for anyone who proves Microsoft ripped off MS-DOS source

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Post by groovy2shoes » Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 2:10 AM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #71

groovy2shoes wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> At that time, the separation of of portable and non portable parts of an OS (CP/M ran on very different and fairly incompatible machines) was quite remarkable On microcomputers, perhaps, but not on computers in general. Unix is a well-known example of an OS that did this, with the hardware-dependent parts mostly confined to a small amount of assembly language and much of the C source platform-independent. This was…

That's true, of course. That doesn't make his accomplishment, to pull this off on severely limited machines, any less remarkable. And that's not mentioning he wrote the language to do it.

Of course. Good point!