Event #6: Best OS-like Skin
Saturday, March 2, 2002 by Frogboy | Discussion: GUI Championships News
User voting for the Best OS-like skin is up. This isn't a skin that looks like an existing operating system. Rather, this is a user interface that you could imagine Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or some other OS designer wanting to use for their OS. Click on the "Vote here" on the right.
grayhaze
Reply #2 Saturday, March 2, 2002 12:07 PM
Reply #2 Saturday, March 2, 2002 12:07 PM
Hard as it is to believe, there was a day back in the distant past when playboy millionaire Bill Gates designed an Operating System. That was before he built his army of robot drones to do all the work for him.
MarkMcQ
Reply #3 Saturday, March 2, 2002 4:27 PM
Reply #3 Saturday, March 2, 2002 4:27 PM
Bill gates?
Is that the little fat guy on the Conan O'Brien show?.............
grayhaze
Reply #4 Saturday, March 2, 2002 6:54 PM
Reply #4 Saturday, March 2, 2002 6:54 PM
Short guy... glasses... able to turn on lights by simply entering a room.
paxx
Reply #6 Sunday, March 3, 2002 11:07 AM
Reply #6 Sunday, March 3, 2002 11:07 AM
Hum... I wonder which OS he actually designed?
Not DOS, he bought that one for 10,000$ I think, or some ridiculous amount. Certainly not any version of Windows, he hired drones for that. So it's probably prior to DOS. I do think he designed some sort of BASIC language for the Altair (although BASIC was also actually first developped some years before)... I think it's the only think he almost actually wrote himself...
grayhaze
Reply #7 Sunday, March 3, 2002 4:02 PM
Reply #7 Sunday, March 3, 2002 4:02 PM
Didn't he reverse engineer DOS? (Note: This comment is neither the opinion of this site, or even myself. Cheers Bill.)
GreenReaper
Reply #8 Sunday, March 3, 2002 4:11 PM
Reply #8 Sunday, March 3, 2002 4:11 PM
No. MS bought it as QDOS86 ("Quick and Dirty Operating System for the 8086") when they were asked by IBM if they could provide one. It was, indeed, one of the more significant purchases of this century.
I'm fairly sure BillG had a big hand in the design of Windows, and probably some parts of the initial implementation, too. Sure, the MS style is very "hands off", but that wouldn't preclude some of it being his area of expertise, and so his responsibility.
craeonics
Reply #9 Monday, March 4, 2002 5:50 AM
Reply #9 Monday, March 4, 2002 5:50 AM
Okay, so what _exactly_ did Uncle Gates do? I'm getting the feeling he didn't do anything at all, other than market the thing.
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Reply #1 Saturday, March 2, 2002 10:27 AM