redspear on 11 March 2010
| MikeB said: @ famousringo Sadly marketing and commercial success play an enormous part in the perception of people. For example many people think Microsoft wrote (the technically horrible) MSDOS, while in fact the a sole programmer copied source codes of CP/M and Microsoft only bought this from the programmer when the OS was still called Quick and Dirty OS (QDOS) for 25,000 dollars. (lack of insight by IBM managers then made Microsoft into what it is today) |
Mike the Amiga was a wonderful machine that was way ahead of its time. However the PARC system developed in the early 70s featured pre emptive Multitasking and allowed for for copy and paste between spreadsheets and other applications.
While you attack MS for taking DOS. You are forgetting the big one where Apple stole a GUI and now most people think Apple invented it. In fact most people who think of MS today think of Windows and not DOS.
The implementation of motion in gaming is what made motion gaming come back not just the technology.
