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Gates' youth.
At the age of 17, Billy did not play shake,
didn’t drink vermouth on playgrounds and didn’t
shook off 20 cents from the kids. B magician
he saw the hardware store
a real computer on the table. All!
It caught fire. Maman, I don’t want a teddy bear
ku, I don’t want a Barbie doll, I want a computer. at
ok, it seems like the grades at school are good, on the phone...
no computer. The first 48 hours after this
Bill and his friend Paul Aptcom were doing...
landing on the moon. And then I got tired of it and wanted
something else was happening.
In general, to do this something
Also, I desperately needed BASIC. - it was necessary
choose a computer model with BASIC
, said Paul. - there are no such models, and no
BASIC for such small machines-life-
Bill noted dutifully. - What are we doing now?
shall we do? - And we’ll write BASIC ourselves,
we'll sell it to the manufacturer, then write
sham MS-DOS, Windows, Chicago, Kaypo... -
he listed for another two minutes and sighed,
added: we just can’t cope on our own,
you will need to open a company... IN! Micro
software! He pauseda little, corrected otbuc-
Paul's jaw and continued: - Of course,
it's not easy, but there is a chance to be the first, a
the first in our business gets almost everything.
Let's go to the library!
- For three weeks our friends pored over
codes, almost lost all the codes twice
fpi programs on the tape recorder, but here you go
sik started breathing! And the first program on this
BASIC was written! Here it is:
10 FOR I=1 TO 100
20 PRINT "BILL GATES"
30 PRINT "PROGRAM WORLD WIDE LEADER!"
30 NEXT I
Ypaa! It's working!
The next day in the morning, friends sent
approached IBM to sign contracts. U
the door of the board of directors stood a hefty oxpah-
Nick, regularly chewing traditional
American dish. Where! “Back!” he shouted.
he, seeing that some youths without asking
headed for the doors. - What ?! I'm Bill
Gates, director of Microsoft, said one of
them. - Oh, sorry sir, we recently had a...
some urchins stole all the toilets from the toilets
magician, so everyone saved themselves as best they could. One
my friend told me how he unscrewed
fell. Okay - he's a former mountaineer,
pocto canget by with a tram ticket,
and the authorities suffered greatly, they say. He
looked at the young people and continued
his occupation is to crush flies with his 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 Oh, the meeting is over and the pres-
dent was left alone for a few minutes before
receiving visitors.
Meanwhile, in the corridor at the door
dark friends stopped to prepare
get involved in conversation. - Paul, wait for me.
here,” said Bill. “I can break through to
he only has one. When should you drink?
champagne - I'll come for you.
In the secretary's reception area the pi-pi is jammed
machine and she calls the service bureau
vaniya. Gates comes in and heads towards the door.
inside the President's office. Passing by an obvious
he quietly drops: - I am the son... [of his
parents] - this is already a whisper. Entering the ca-
binet, he sees the president of IBM in the chair behind
table The President frowned when he saw the
lost guest and prepared to deliver
got impudent to the place.
Gates came to the tableand slap him
cassette with the program! - Here! If you want
so that sales of personal computers remain scanty
strong, and then stopped completely - you can
drive me away! The President listened silently. -
“This is BASIC,” said Bill, now more confidently.
koino. - Excuse me, what? - B E Y S I K,
BASIC interpreter for PC. - y and what
?,” the president began to get nervous. - Yes, that's it
it’s just that without this, no one needs a computer
not needed except for a few hobbyists. -
You see, my dear, our specialists
calculated the total need for such machines
nakh and determined it at 200 thousand for the whole
peace. In general, our interests lie in the area
these real, powerful cars that are needed
everywhere! And these... toys are for those who love...
lei and there is. - What if on this computer
there will be BASIC - anyone can write a program
frame, start it IMMEDIATELY, correct it, and
no punch cards, no queues
compiling and running the program! - Mmm... well
well, let's go and see what you have
they sculpted there. What do you say your name is?
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 prog department
ram. On the way we met Paul, Bill
introduced him to the president and went on
together. In the departmentthe whole floor had programs
strewn with holes from punch cards and some
men crawled on the rolled floor
20 meter printout of crash dump
memory in order to detect errors in the distribution
OS-360 memory divider. To the President
the head of the department came up and said that
there is hope to do this by lunchtime.
The President, in turn, wished them
good luck introducing Bill and Paul as authors
BASIC for PC, suggested watching the program
frame and give a conclusion. Then he left
referring to important matters.
The chief programmer took the guys through
another room and turned on one of the PCs. Minu-
it went to load and an invitation popped up.
tion:
Microsoft Basic V1.0 OK
>_
We quickly sketched out a small program
pammky, RUN, and now they were running across the screen
all sorts of sticks and hooks. Main program
Mr. became interested, sat down at the computer and
I didn’t get out of my chair for an hour. For tectupo-
vania, he wrote such versions of programs,
that the guys were amazed. Letters be-
walked across the screen in all directions, jumped
gallied and sorted out likewanted. At the end
they all fell and formed into a heap, which
paradise then melted away. - PSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHH -
the programmer sighed after that and believed
turned to young people. what, basically
not bad, although there are some mistakes. These mistakes
deprived our heroes of sleep for a couple more weeks
and as you know, they were eliminated even in a chair
flying plane. Of course this program
was still imperfect, a product of its own
time, but... undocumented functions
tions were already in it.
Bill Gates. Young years.
After the story of writing BASIC and
began cooperation with the largest computer
the thorny company IBM began a new era in
computer science - the era of DOS and IBM PC.
As you know, at first DOS was slapped on
knee from SR/M with the participation of Mr. Mark
Zbikowski. His initials are still beautiful -
are located at the beginning of each EXE file. Then for-
IBM apparently tired of learning DOS and it
used the services of a young, but promising
tive company Microsoft under the leadership
our unforgettable hero. It was heartbreaking
What time is it for all project participants: -
#$%$#!!,” one of them exclaimed in the heat of the moment
programmers. In response to this, Gates expressed
pointed pointedly at the coffee can:
anyone who says an obscene word must
throw wives there 25cents Collected de-
the neg was enough not only for coffee and pizza, but
and for everything else. The project itself
there was no, there was a set of tasks and a dedicated
there is a memory underneath them. For every saved
bytes were paid at 5 dollars. One of
programmers saved 10 KB and arranged
a grand banquet on this occasion, in re-
as a result of which Gates inadvertently sold for
a few licenses for DOS competition for next to nothing
pehtam. Because of this, mecha was invented.
low level of undocumented functions. First
not all useful functions were described, con-
competitors implemented them in their own way, then
hitherto hidden functions were described and
data structures, and competitors come
I wanted to feverishly redo everything. (You
you will say ayyyyyy, but I think that the OS has debt
wives be one owner who introduces the stan-
darts. Look what happened to UNIX, de-
dozens of versions that are far from compatible between
itself, and within the framework of the general standard much
cannot be done). ok, I got carried away,
Now the story of Vera, a participant in those events
Slow: - So I initially worked on the PDP-11
tal, in assembler there, Fortran... and in
Tom was called here, so I went. And our boss
I read a lot of smart books and came up with some
ctpykatyphoe programming, shtob, sign-
cheat, files are no more than 300 lines, so I'm for-
Sandal used to have about five thousand lines and
they called me here, so I went. Aour boss
I read a lot of smart books and came up with some
ctpykatyphoe programming, shtob, sign-
cheat, files are no more than 300 lines, so I'm for-
Sandal used to have about five thousand lines and
k, chick... And these functions are undocumented
I did better than anyone else. And soon
I decided to increase the speed of disk work
(unless, of course, our micro-Soviet program
ma works, hehe). And then I suggested
multitask and multiscreen, let's go
they have already started measuring memory by megabytes, and
We are all sitting at 640 K, and the boss says that
there in the upper memory the windows will hang.
Then we got to the windows. Here we have
there were problems with speed, everything was slow
worked, but someone noticed that between
program speed and memory are
inverse proportionality, which means no
of course a big program will work
infinitely fast. Well, that's how we started pi-
I mean, that means more...
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