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Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 4 months ago

Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code.

www.gatesnotes.com

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Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code.

www.gatesnotes.com

Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 4 months ago
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    I’m good…Thanks

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      why would I celebrate the company that makes my least favourite software?

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        Because, while they did so in a scummy wayz they revolutionized home computing and office computing.

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          I’m just going to acknowledge rather than celebrate.

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            I acknowledge your sacrifice.

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    So this code likely generated the very first blue screen of death.

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      What is this “blue” you mention? That’s not green Or amber!

      Seriously though, errors in native code back then would either freeze the system or just spontaneously reboot, either way no time to display a reason. (Although the BASIC interpreter would at least try to say what happened with errors in BASIC code.)

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    wow, that website, its just wow

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      I think they overdid it a bit.

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    … And then I bought DOS and Mommy convinced the IBM board to ONLY use my DOS.

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      Technically they didn’t make DOS but bought it, rebrand it then had to support it.

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        That’s what I meant. 🤷

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    I hear they facilitate genocide

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