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Originally Posted by HarryT
It certainly wasn't MS-DOS that got Microsoft going. Bill Gates made his initial millions writing ROM BASIC interpreters for the first home computers. And yes, he wrote that personally  . |
True. I seem to recall reading/hearing that it was pretty nice code too.
Anyhow elcreative's phrase could probably have been better, but to be fair it was the first product that got them going on a scale and in a manner that their BASIC interpreter never would have, so as I said it was a 'more factual' thing to say. Either way MS-DOS definitely wasn't the start of Microsoft. Not even their first OS if I recall correctly. Didn't they have a prior unix variant?
Probably a bit of a tangent (re: rat hole) this, thought interesting times those early PC days.