Topic: RIP Stephen Hawking

[Yamahawk]

That being said, I still think Bill Gates is a genius of sorts. Can you imagine coming up with "Windows"? Clicking on a tiny image on a computer screen triggering activity?

Your facts are not correct, Mike. Windows was well after Apple’s Lisa, and Gates developed Windows after seeing IBMs TopView. He is hardly the father of GUI operating systems. More of an emulator than innovator. And it took Microsoft decades to release a 64-bit OS running on 64-bit hardware that had been in place from many others since the early 90s. If you’d like to cite a true computing genius, Seymour Cray might be a far better candidate.

And Bill Gates STOLE MS-DOS from the creator, and put his name on it...so, he's not quite the fellow we thought... and Windows sucks lol. I have been into computers since the early '80's, worked with CP/M and Dos, back before Windows was ever released, Unix and Xenix were light years ahead and used for business systems for a long time, and have evolved into LINUX and OS X for Apple. WAY better than Windows. I have a Windows computer just to run my Laser engravers, one is an Epilog Sumit built in 1994, so I have to run Windows 2000 on that one, and a Chinese 60watt engraver that I run Windows 7 on because it works better than Win 10... I wish they would program a printer driver for Mac OS X for the lasers, but such is not the case... yet. One company in Las Vegas had a graphic interface for their Full Systems Laser, but they are not in business anymore, or maybe they are, can't remember...
Charlie

[MikeSimon]

Well, I stand corrected. Not that I like Bill Gates much anyway. I just tried to make a point that whoever invented an OS that works like Windows must be some kind of smart guy and able to think ahead of the rest of us.
If all of these guys could be brushed away with smart aleck remarks, one could do the same with Rudolf Diesel and Nikolaus Otto. How about that? And if you don't have anything else to say in a thread like this other than how your wife reacts to your clicks, why do you participate to begin with?

[TwoTired]

Well, I stand corrected. Not that I like Bill Gates much anyway. I just tried to make a point that whoever invented an OS that works like Windows must be some kind of smart guy and able to think ahead of the rest of us.

You might like to learn of the Xerox Alto from 1973.  First computer to utilize a graphical user interface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto

It also had network capability, work group printing (on laser printers), and remote server file storage capability.  I remember printing documents in New York for colleagues from my office in Palo Alto.  Email to/from sites worldwide were daily routine by 1979 when I joined the group.  The Pentagon used quite a lot of the Altos in that era, as well.  There was no better document creator/manipulator in the world at that time.

While not personally affordable, it was the first personal computer with mouse and GUI.  Nearly every Xerox office Employee had one for personal use.

Cheers,

[Duke McDukiedook]

Well, I stand corrected. Not that I like Bill Gates much anyway. I just tried to make a point that whoever invented an OS that works like Windows must be some kind of smart guy and able to think ahead of the rest of us.

You might like to learn of the Xerox Alto from 1973.  First computer to utilize a graphical user interface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto

It also had network capability, work group printing (on laser printers), and remote server file storage capability.  I remember printing documents in New York for colleagues from my office in Palo Alto.  Email to/from sites worldwide were daily routine by 1979 when I joined the group.  The Pentagon used quite a lot of the Altos in that era, as well.  There was no better document creator/manipulator in the world at that time.

While not personally affordable, it was the first personal computer with mouse and GUI.  Nearly every Xerox office Employee had one for personal use.

Cheers,

Gates and Jobs borrowed heavily from Xerox for their computer and OS designs.

[Steve F]

I have always found it amazing how some people feel challenged by others who are obviously smarter than they and then put them down, bully them or make fun of them.

Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experimental tools to probe these phenomena.

Wow.  You just described a former V.P. of a company I worked for.  EVERYONE was more intelligent that this dolt, EVERYONE, and yet he became a V.P..  Turns out he was nothing more than a head knocker and the Pres. wanted this kind of a-hole running things.  Worst decision ever made, but the Pres would never admit to making a mistake.

[strynboen]

I have always found it amazing how some people feel challenged by others who are obviously smarter than they and then put them down, bully them or make fun of them.

only you vill make a post like that...funny germens dont eksist...