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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Jun 2008 09:17 UTC, submitted by stonyandcher

Bill Gates - for over 30 years now he and his company shaped the technology world, for better or worse, that's up to you to decide. On June 27th, 2008, Gates will step down to spend more time on his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, while still taking on an advisory role within the biggest software company of the world. PC World listed ten of the most memorable Bill Gates moments.

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RE[2]: 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"

by sakeniwefu on Tue 17th Jun 2008 22:49 UTC in reply to "RE: 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD""

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I missed that one but according to Wikipedia:

The FAT file system was created for managing disks in Microsoft Standalone Disk BASIC. In August 1980 Tim Paterson incorporated FAT into his 86-DOS operating system for the S-100 8086 CPU boards;[6] the file system was the main difference between 86-DOS and its predecessor, CP/M.

I also remember an interview with Bill Gates on the matter. It was probably a ripoff from another filesystem but I am pretty sure Bill Gates designed the original FAT12.

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