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Being an old fart, and being an electronics engineer (specialized control systems), I will state without reservation that the OP statement is absolutely correct. Re gates: he was a snivelling little shit that didn't do squat other than kiss ass, with the other founders doing the work. DOS was handed to him when DR refused to deal with the IBM thing (which was also a program initiated by the clowns; ref, IBM already had a viable desktop based on the 68k, using UNIX, when the clowns made it pay for IBM to "develop" the 8086/88 based PC). MS didn't even have an operating system at the time, and bought a half-baked OS from a hobbyist. And that, friends, is why MSDOS was never a good OS, besides the fact it was being preened for spycraft. Windows has never been a truly viable system without holes, those being intentional.
Older tech people know all this. And they know that the screwbook was 'LifeLog', developed by DARPA to collate user data and classify users, sponsored by the clowns.
Real tech is far beyond the crap now being used. Some stuff my teams developed in the early-mid 1970s is still not available to you. In other words, y'all just think this crap is leading edge.
This Fag knows what's up! Sit down and take notes frens.
I am ONE of those OLDER TECHIES...Remember Windows VERSION 1 quite well...VERY BUGGY...and then yada-yadda-yadda!!! That was in late '70s...and I ain't looking up the damn date!!! I am drinking a VERY NICE glass of Cabernet...😎
Enjoy that Cab! Won't get into dates on any of this; I was working in Silicon Valley at the time ibm announced, would put it in the early 80s. Had a part time teaching electronics in college, and tried my best to get those people (both public and private) to use more competent processors to teach the various forms of addressing etc, to no avail, since everyone thought ibm was the greatest.
Over the last couple years, I've broken my vow to not drink much (made after doing bad stuff after Nam to some people in a bar) and have my rotgut whiskey in the eves. However... After decades in the profession, I did have the sense to get the hell out of 'civilized' places, and have as complete ownership of my stuff as possible in these times. Fighting one or two of the local shithead dems is taking up too much time though.
Yup, I had Atari computers and didn't go X86 until the 486 chips. Remember the bumper stickers MS Dos, Just say no! I too electronics in 91 but never worked in that field. We had 8088 training computers with breadboards and had projects like expanding the memory with TTL chips and wires then had to write assembly prog. that addressed the extra memory. The instructor and didn't tell us that the memory addresses would be lower then the onboard memory. We learned how to convert numbers from binary to octal, hexadecimal, and base 10 on paper. THhis was vocational not collage. All kinds of stuff a lot of people don't know about. And, Or, Nand, Nor, Eor gates etc...
Believe this or not, doesn't matter. If you dig into electronics history, you'll find that the 'first' processor was the 4004 intel, followed by the 4040. That's bullshit. In 1972, I worked for a company that did aerospace R&D (I was in college then); some of the projects used a thing called the '1800CD chipset' which was classified secret. It was an 8/16 processor set, radiation hardened and fit for beyond the Van Allen. As has been said many times by many people, 'all is not as it seems to be'.
Hardware knowledge was 'old hat' by the mid-90s, it seems, and skilled engineers/techs were hard to come by. Oddly, in the late 90s, the best I worked with were in their 60s/70s OR a few Russian engineers that really knew their stuff. Kids that graduated in the early 90s (from UCSD) were pretty ignorant of the hardware.
Atari: I had one of those, used the 68000. Darned good computer. I had OS9-68k installed so I could program some of the military stuff I worked on at the time.
My Atari was first an 800 then an ST, I think it was the ST that had the 68000 and was a Motorola chip. Though I no longer keep up with the tech. I enjoyed leaning about how it worked. They even taught Boolean Algebra, and Greyscale. A lot more tech. than vocational training required. I took several college level programming courses and enjoyed them, but I was never an Idea man, just wrote code the teacher requested.
After no job came from it I slowly lost interest in keeping up, but if I have a computer problem that warrants being not lazy I can typically dig around and fix it. Software programs have so many features that you can get lost in the menus and I feel sorry for people just starting out.
Yup. Understood. These days, I kinda prefer to piddle around with my ARs and such, and keep my place running. Working on going off grid with some tech that is beyond the Qm crap. People just accept what they're told, mostly, without thinking. It IS possible to capture energy in overunity. Done it in several different configurations. The physics is different, and people refuse to understand it.
Bought it in Seattle where he was attending school before dropping out. It was called QDOS (Quick & Dirty Operating System). IBM rebranded it Disk Operating System. Being a hardware company, the geniuses running the place thought renting would be a better idea! So with the first rental check, IBM essentially created the Microsoft monopoly by handing over the very first product.