Byvalshchina - Gates' youth.

       
                                          
                                          
 You thought it was easy to get up here
                              Fly high, don't fall deep
                         Explore this world and stay happy,
                           You brought faith, kindness and a fist to him.
 (C)DDT
                                          
Music By SUHA                   
(c) SISOFT/TRG                  
                                          
 Gates' youth.                 
                                          
 At the age of 17, Billy did not play shake, not
drank vermouth on the playgrounds and didn't
shared 20 cents from the kids. INhardware store  (hardware) he
I saw a real computer on the table.
All!  It caught fire. Mom, I don’t want a teddy
bear, I don’t want a Barbie doll, I want
computer.                                
 Well, okay, the grades at school seem to be good,
you have a computer. First 48 hours after
this Bill with friend Paul Arts
landed on the moon.  And then this
I got tired and wanted something else.         
 In general, to make it something else,
I desperately needed BASIC.                 
 - It was necessary to choose a computer model with
"Basic," Paul said.                   
 - There are no such models, and there is no BASIC for
such small cars are cheerful
Bill remarked.                             
 - What are we going to do now?         
 - And we’ll write BASIC ourselves and sell it
manufacturer, then we will write MS-DOS,
Windows, Chicago, Kairo... - he listed
two more minutes and sighing, added: only
to ourselvescan't cope, it will be necessary
open a company... WHAT!   Microsoft!   He
paused for a bit, straightened his droop
Paul's jaw and continued:                
 - Of course, it’s not easy, but there is a chance
to be the first, and the first in our business
you get almost everything. Let's go to the library!   
                                          
 - For three weeks our friends pored over
codes, almost lost everything twice
copies of the program on a tape recorder, but here
Basic started breathing! And the first program on this
BASIC was written!                    
 Here it is:                                
                                          
  10 FOR I=1 TO 100                       
  20 PRINT "BILL GATES - PROGRAM WORLD   
WIDE LEADER! "                           
 30 NEXT I                               
 40 STOP                                
                                          
 Hurray! It's working!                       
                                          
 The next day in the morning, friends
headed to IBM for conclusion
contracts.   At the door of the board stood
a hefty security guard chewing steadily
traditional American dish.  Where!
Back!” he shouted when he saw that
some youths without asking went to
doors.                                   
 - What?!   I'm Bill Gates, director
Microsoft,” said one of them.          
 - Oh, sorry sir, we recently
some urchins stole all the toilets from
paper, so everyone saved themselves as best they could. One
my friend told me how he
got out.    Okay - he's an ex
climber, can easily get by
tram ticket, and the authorities are very
suffered, they say.                      
 He followed the young people with his eyes and
continued his occupation - squashing flies
boots.                                 
                                          
IBM gathered at the president's office
queue of visitors.  They were waiting for the end
morning five minutes, which the president
spent the second time with department heads
hour   But the meeting ended and
the president was left alone for several
minutes before receiving visitors.          
                                          
 Meanwhile, in the corridor near the reception door
friends stopped to get ready for
conversation.                                
 “Paul, wait here for me,” Bill said.
- I can only get through to him alone.
When you need to drink champagne, I'll come
behind you.                                 
                                          
 In the reception area, the secretary's writing machine got jammed
typewriter and she calls the service bureau.
Gates comes in and heads for the doors.
the president's office. Walking past the line
lowly drops: - I am the son... [of hisparents] - this is already a whisper.  Going into
office, he sees the president of IBM in the chair
at the table.  The President frowned when he saw
uninvited guest and got ready
put the impudent person in his place.                
Gates walked up to the table and slammed it down
cassette with the program!                     
 - Here!   If you want sales
staff remained scanty, and then
completely stopped - you can see me
drive away!                                 
 The President listened silently.                  
 “This is BASIC,” said Bill, already more than
calm.                                 
 - Excuse me, what?                         
 - BASIC, BASIC interpreter for PC.  
 - So what?, - the president began
be nervous.                               
 - Yes, it’s just that without this
no one needs a computer except
several amateurs.                     
 - You see, my dear,our specialists
calculated the total need for such
cars and determined it at 200 thousand per
the whole world.  In general, our interests lie in
areas of real, powerful machines that
needed everywhere!  And these... toys are for
there are fans.                         
 - And if this computer has BASIC
- anyone can write a program, RIGHT HERE
run it, fix it - and nothing
punched cards, no queues for compilation
and run the program!                       
 - Mmm... well, let's go,
Let's see what you've done there.  How are you
say your name? Gates? Great.       
                                          
 And they passed by all the visitors,
important guys with briefcases (all this, of course
nonsense, it doesn’t happen, but oh well, that’s
after all, a fairy tale) and headed to the department
programs.  On the way we met Paul, Bill
introduced him to the president and went on
together.                                   
 In the software department, the entire floor was covered with
holes from punch cards and some men
crawled along a 20-meter rolled out floor
emergency printoutmemory dump with purpose
detecting an error in the memory allocator
OS-360.  The boss approached the president
department and said that there is hope to do
It's still time for lunch.                          
 The President, in turn, wished them
good luck introducing Bill and Paul as authors
BASIC for PC, suggested looking at it
program and give a conclusion.   Then
left, citing important matters.      
 The chief programmer took the guys to another
room and turned on one of the PCs. The minute has passed
to load and a prompt pops up:      
                                          
Microsoft Basic V1. 0                     
OK                                       
>_                                       
                                          
 We quickly sketched out a small
program,  RUN, and now on the screen
All sorts of little sticks and hooks were running around. Chief
the programmer became interested and sat down to
the computer never left the chair
hour   Fortesting he wrote like this
program options that guys are amazing
were given.  Letters ran across the screen in all
directions, jumped and sorted
as they wanted.  In the end they all fell and
formed into a heap, which then melted. 
 - PSHSHSHSHSHSHSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH happen your yours, the programmer sighed
after that he turned to the young people.
Well, in principle it’s not bad, although there are
errors. These mistakes deprived our heroes of sleep
for a couple more weeks and as you know,
were eliminated even in the seat of a flying
airplane.  Of course, this program was still
imperfect, a product of its time,
but... undocumented functions in it
have already been.                                 
                                          
  The end of an era.                 
                                          
                                          
  Bill Gates. Young years.            
                                          
 After the story of writing BASIC and
startedcooperation with the largest
computer company IBM a new one has begun
era in computer science - the era of DOS and
IBM PC.As you know, in the beginning DOS was
slapped on the knee from SR/M with the participation
Mr. Mark Zbikowski. His initials are before
are still displayed at the beginning of every EXE
file.                                    
 Then DOS classes apparently tired IBM and
she used the services of a young, but
promising company Microsoft under
the leadership of our unforgettable hero.   
 It was a hot time for everyone
project participants: - #$%$#!!, - in the heat of the moment
one of the programmers exclaimed.        
 In response to this, Gates expressively
pointed to a coffee can: everyone who
says an obscene word, must quit
25 cents there. The money collected was not enough
only for coffee and pizza, but for everything
the rest.                                
 There was no project as such,there was a set
tasks and memory allocated for them. For
Each byte saved was paid
5 dollars. One of the programmers saved 10
kbyte and arranged a grand banquet for
about this, causing Gates
accidentally sold a few for next to nothing
DOS licenses to competitors. Because of this
and a mechanism was invented
undocumented functions.    First
not all useful functions were described,
competitors implemented them in their own way,
then hitherto hidden functions were described and
data structures, and competitors
I had to feverishly redo everything.
(You will say ay-yay-yay, but I think that y OS
there must be one owner who enters
standards.  Look what happened to UNIX
dozens of versions that are far from compatible
among themselves, but within the framework of a common standard
there's a lot that can't be done).  Okay, me
suffered, now the story of the participant of those
events Very Layer:                       
 - So I initially worked on the PDP-11,
in assembly language there, Fortran... and then here
They called me, so I went. And our boss is a bookseller
I read a lot of smart people and came up with something
ctpykatyphoe programming, shtob,
this means that the files are no more than 300 lines, so I
I used to sandal about five thousand lines and
chick, chick... And these functions,
undocumentedI'm the best
worked out.  And the disk speed
came up with a raise (unless, of course, our
The micro-Soviet program works, hehe).
And then I suggested multitask and
Multiscreen to play, there's already memory left
megabytes started to be measured, and we are all at 640 K
we are sitting, and the boss says that there is in the top
memory windows will hang. Then we and before
we reached the windows. We had problems here
with speed, everything worked slowly, but
someone noticed that between the speed of work
programs and memory have the opposite
proportionality, which means infinitely
big program will work
infinitely fast.  Well that's how we started
write, so that means more...        
                                          
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Here is DOS,that Gates built.          
 And here are the Windows that run on DOS,
which Gates built.                   
 And here is WinWord, which is launched from Windows,that they sit on DOS,which...           
 And here is WordBasic, which works in Word,
that is launched from Windows...                   
 And here is the program for WordBasic, which
works in Word...                       
 And here is an error in the WordBasic program,
what works in Word...                   
In general, everything hung.                      
                                          
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Once upon a time in the cold winter           
I left Windows:                       
There was Norton and DOS.                         
I see it starts up slowly again: -    
I guess I didn't take my hand away.           
Under Windows RM I'll put up wallpaper,           
Maybe a picture, or maybe a pattern;        
I move the windows, I'll set everything up PIFs,          
Here ALT/F4 - and the whole conversation.             
                                          
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Oh, how many wonderful discoveries we have            
Brings the Microsoft spirit!                  
And Intel, the son of difficult mistakes,              
And Borland, Paradox's friend!