Bill Gates jumps over a desk chair like a boss
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5. c0mmanderKeen commented 11 years ago
#2 MS DOS was THE most important thing that happened to personal computers in their emergence 
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6. LightAng3l commented 11 years ago
All geeks I know can jump high... 
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7. krillemaster commented 11 years ago
#4 without Gates, Apple wouldn't have survived =)
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8. ChainTexter commented 11 years ago
"Yes!" - a Connie Chung moment.
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12. Thanny commented 11 years ago
MS-DOS was just a renamed 86-QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), which MS licensed (and later purchased) to fulfill their contract with IBM for a 16-bit personal computer OS. It was a rough clone of CP/M (Control Program for Micros). Far from being the most important software, it was basically the minimum required to put 16-bit personal computers on the market.
Without Microsoft, the early years would likely be dominated by a 16-bit version of CP/M instead, and some other Xerox-inspired GUI for PC's instead of Windows. For a while in the mid-90's, I hoped OS/2 would remain a viable alternative, but the anti-competitive bundling practices of Microsoft ultimately consigned it to obscurity.
With MacOS always being tied to expensive Apple-only hardware (aside from a couple years in the mid-90's when they licensed clones), it was never going to dominate a market that wanted more open hardware.
The short answer to #4's question is that without Microsoft, we'd probably be better off. Windows has improved a lot over the years, but it's still lacking in a lot of fundamental areas.
Without Microsoft, the early years would likely be dominated by a 16-bit version of CP/M instead, and some other Xerox-inspired GUI for PC's instead of Windows. For a while in the mid-90's, I hoped OS/2 would remain a viable alternative, but the anti-competitive bundling practices of Microsoft ultimately consigned it to obscurity.
With MacOS always being tied to expensive Apple-only hardware (aside from a couple years in the mid-90's when they licensed clones), it was never going to dominate a market that wanted more open hardware.
The short answer to #4's question is that without Microsoft, we'd probably be better off. Windows has improved a lot over the years, but it's still lacking in a lot of fundamental areas.
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14. equilibrium2x commented 11 years ago
wasn't that right about the time everyone was saying that white men can't jump?
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16. YoArgentino commented 11 years ago
#%, it was DOS the one that was important, not MS-DOS specifically.
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17. Judge-Jake commented 5 years ago
So a gate can jump over a chair, but can a chair jump over a gate? 
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18. thundersnow commented 5 years ago
#17 Good question!......
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+40 1. irishgek commented 11 years ago