Friday, January 08, 2010
Why Microsoft wasn't dead born company ?
Including its built-in Basic Assembly Language, Gates and Allen might not have had such an urgent need to create Microsoft BASIC. Similarly, because the first machine had a disk operating system (DOS), which was compatible with IBM computers, Big Blue might not have gone in search of a DOS for its IBM PC.
BAD HARDWARE: Well, IBM wouldn't like to lose its mainframe monopoly in 1972. Or someone from IBM (say Bill Gates mother) itself gave to Bill God's gift: DOS requirement in year 1979.
By 1982, when IBM asked Microsoft to release a version of DOS that was compatible with a hard disk, PC-DOS 2.0 was an almost complete rewrite of DOS, so by March 1983, very little of QDOS remained.
Thus we see, first PC in 1972 was obviously too complex, too weak, to expensive for the next 10 years.
BAD HARDWARE: Well, IBM wouldn't like to lose its mainframe monopoly in 1972. Or someone from IBM (say Bill Gates mother) itself gave to Bill God's gift: DOS requirement in year 1979.
By 1982, when IBM asked Microsoft to release a version of DOS that was compatible with a hard disk, PC-DOS 2.0 was an almost complete rewrite of DOS, so by March 1983, very little of QDOS remained.
Thus we see, first PC in 1972 was obviously too complex, too weak, to expensive for the next 10 years.
THIS LINK posted by Joseph Bell : 2:50 PM
