Microsoft Duo

From: Gerald Tamayo <compgt@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2013
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To: jchayes@microsoft.com

Microsoft, Bill Gates

Even before, I wouldn't give away my Microsoft ownership. Who would? 

Do I need to recall Steve (Jobs) to remember that I was there, at the dawn of the personal computing industry? COMDEX 101. 1981. COMDEX 101 1981. 

Windows and Apple, Microsoft Quick C, Turbo C and Turbo
Pascal, Visual Studio and Borland...!

I had someone with me in developing MSDOS. It was the two of us who created DOS. I was Microsoft--we, were Microsoft, MSDOS/Windows. (Bill Gates was MTS-altair.)

I think it was just a "tour," to see what a compiler looks like. I stayed big time. And created MSDOS!

I didn't even want Bill Gates to have a larger share of Microsoft ownership, if we include him. If we include him at all...

He was practically imploring me, for us to start our own company, and not sell it to IBM. Actually, an IBM representative was purportedly called up there. But it happened just in the accounting department of a certain university; they had "computers." Eventually, the news, the word was out.

(If every deal at the time was accepted or fulfilled at all, then Microsoft is still under my name, actually. And the monitor/LCD tech (?). Which were, of course, only "ours.")

IBM was deeply rooted in Unix. We all know that. I was actually contemplating of naming our OS either "PC-DOS" or "MS-DOS."

The new MSDOS interrupts speeded all things up. The two added interrups had a software equivalent at first, which made apps run faster. So we wanted it in hardware BIOS.

Bill Gates wanted the OS called MTS-DOS.
So I asked, what is MTS? 
"It's actually MITS," he replied. "Too long," I said.
"How about MTS-DOS?" he insisted again.

But I decided it to be simply "MSDOS".

And Bill was irked by the term "disk" because he said it was an operating system for "computers," not disks. He wanted to call it a "time-sharing system" immediately, not a "Disk Operating System." I didn't care. "DOS" was perfect for us because it was the two of us (me and her) who created Microsoft and MS-DOS. "DOS." Two. (Our system already had a built-in interrupt handler for GUI, and with the new BIOS/MSDOS interrupts, it would be blazing fast.)

We had an Operating Sytem and a language and compiler creation toolkit of our own already. We can create compilers in a snap. An OS and a compiler, two products of our own.

We even made Unix faster, and fixed some bugs. Even created ext3, and ext4 file system, but eventually decided "our" ext4 (or ext5?) to be for future Windows.

So i forgot about these from grade school... and yet "no one reminded me." Of course... 

In grade school, high school, and college, it's like you were "new" to computers, and enthralled by the stories of these software entrepreneurs, who made it big in the industry...

(1/19/2012) 

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