Hello,
I was wondering if the forum members could help me compile a list of the principle designers/engineers/creators/inventors of each of the following retro systems:
MS-DOS - I think it was Bill Gates on this one, at least that's my understanding.
Commodore Amiga
Commodore 64
Apple II - I already know it was Steve Wozniak on this system. My understanding is that he gets 98+% of the credit.
Tandy TRS-80 model I and III
GNU/Linux - I already know it was chiefly Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds on this one. I know that Torvalds assumes 99% plus of the credit but in reality it was Stallman and his team of volunteers that did most of the work.
OS2
Atari ST
Atari 400/800
MS-Windows - I think it was Bill Gates on this one
Unix
Apple Mac - I know that Steve Jobs tends to get all of the credit but I looked at a book recently that spreads the credit around a bit more even handedly. I may have to borrow it again and write down all the engineers,designers and creative individuals names that "helped" him yet never get any credit. The book was called "Revolution in the valley: the insanely great story of how the Mac was made".
Commodore 128
CP/M
Texas Instruments TI-99/4 and TI-99/4a
Tandy CoCo RSDOS
Tandy CoCo OS9
Tandy CoCo 1, 2 and 3
Tandy TRS-80 model II and 12
Tandy model 100
Apple II GS
Atari XE series
Atari XL series
Atari XEGS
IBM early series machines up to about mid 1990's say
BASIC programming language
Thank you
I was wondering if the forum members could help me compile a list of the principle designers/engineers/creators/inventors of each of the following retro systems:
MS-DOS - I think it was Bill Gates on this one, at least that's my understanding.
Commodore Amiga
Commodore 64
Apple II - I already know it was Steve Wozniak on this system. My understanding is that he gets 98+% of the credit.
Tandy TRS-80 model I and III
GNU/Linux - I already know it was chiefly Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds on this one. I know that Torvalds assumes 99% plus of the credit but in reality it was Stallman and his team of volunteers that did most of the work.
OS2
Atari ST
Atari 400/800
MS-Windows - I think it was Bill Gates on this one
Unix
Apple Mac - I know that Steve Jobs tends to get all of the credit but I looked at a book recently that spreads the credit around a bit more even handedly. I may have to borrow it again and write down all the engineers,designers and creative individuals names that "helped" him yet never get any credit. The book was called "Revolution in the valley: the insanely great story of how the Mac was made".
Commodore 128
CP/M
Texas Instruments TI-99/4 and TI-99/4a
Tandy CoCo RSDOS
Tandy CoCo OS9
Tandy CoCo 1, 2 and 3
Tandy TRS-80 model II and 12
Tandy model 100
Apple II GS
Atari XE series
Atari XL series
Atari XEGS
IBM early series machines up to about mid 1990's say
BASIC programming language
Thank you