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According to this, Gates did some of the design, but Marc McDonald, employee #1 at MS, helped with the design, and did the coding in 1977: http://en.wikipedia.
by mturmon 13y ago
According to this, Gates did some of the design, but Marc McDonald, employee #1 at MS, helped with the design, and did the coding in 1977:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Original_8-bit_FAT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Original_...
Like a lot of old stories remembered after-the-fact to make a point, it seems that the truth is more complicated.
- colmvp 13y agoThanks for pointing this out. It's all too common to overlook employee contributions to projects.
- mathattack 13y agoI think the point of the story wasn't proper attribution, it was a way for Gates to prod people to work faster.
- rbanffy 13y agoBy misappropriating their work?
- 011011100 13y agoI coded the entire linux operating system in one hour. Why can't you do something just as amazing with the same amount of time? "but appropriation of work isn't relevant at all!!!!!" Of course it's relevant. The prodding doesn't work if the justification for the prodding is a lie.
- DannyBee 13y agohttp://31.media.tumblr.com/981b9455b35ca551cbfd2227110b9da2/tumblr_mhgcs6PtMw1qgbu2uo1_1280.png http://31.media.tumblr.com/981b9455b35ca551cbfd2227110b9da2/...