Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Mar 2008 07:36 UTC
"Computer platform advocacy can bubble up in the strangest places. In a recent interview at a conference in Australia, Linux creator Linus Torvalds got the Macintosh community in an uproar when he described Mac OS X's file system as 'complete and utter crap, which is scary'. What did he mean? What is a 'file system' anyway, and why would we care why one is better than another? At first glance, it might seem that file systems are boring technical widgetry that would never impact our lives directly, but in fact, the humble file system has a huge influence on how we use and interact with computers."
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2006-01-23
It's obvious that Gary Kildall wasn't too interested. He knew that IBM was visiting to discuss things and he wanted to fly his plane that day.
If Tim Paterson hadn't cloned CP/M, except for user spaces, Microsoft wouldn't have had anything to buy. Months later, CP/M-86 would have probably been in the works and IBM would have had to delay the launch on their PC. Maybe, they could have borrowed the DisplayWriter operating system instead.
The author seemed to miss a few details like CP/M's user spaces, the fact that the adverts for Tim Paterson's operating system were selling 86-DOS, not QDOS.