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By some measure Gates has none, as he bought a product and called it MS-DOS1, with the profits of that hired other people to make everything else. Zuckerberg at
by tobylane 9y ago
By some measure Gates has none, as he bought a product and called it MS-DOS1, with the profits of that hired other people to make everything else. Zuckerberg at least personally made the thefacebook complete with algorithms a friend drew on a window.
- eesmith 9y agoThat is not a correct interpretation. Microsoft started as a programming languages company in 1975, first with Altair BASIC and then variants of Microsoft BASIC (Applesoft BASIC, Commodore BASIC, IBM Cassette BASIC, etc.). Gates was a co-author of Altair BASIC. That provided the funding to help it spread into other fields. It entered the OS field in 1980 with Xenix, which was the OS that Microsoft Word was originally developed for. The MS-DOS work for IBM didn't start until 1981, six years after the company was founded.