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From: dwhite@anshar.shadow.net (Don Whiteside)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for faulty myths of computer history...
Date: 2 Jun 1995 00:26:22 -0400
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Keith Marshall (keithm@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au) wrote:
: I'm doing an article about computer myths and I'd like people
: to submit anything they know of other people who believe in
: faulty myths to do with computers... like that Bill Gates
: personally invented the PC or that a PC is better than a
: Cray, or that that Windows was the *first* GUI.
How about the idea that Bill Gates was a good computer jockey rather than
a good marketing guy? That Microsoft actually created/wrote DOS. That
Microsoft stole Windows from Macintosh rather than Mac stealing it from
Xerox Parc?
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