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On 1/4/25 2:29 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2025-01-04, 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
> 
>>     Most ALL code of any size and scope can be "improved".
>>     If not 'security' then streamlining. And yes, some of
>>     the basic algos go all the way back to young Bill Gates.
>>     They used to have contests - who could do what in the
>>     least number of bytes/cycles. Bill often won.
> 
> The tricks he used would get people fired now.


   Heh ... maybe ... but then was then :-)

   WORTH looking at. Fat-ware CAN be seriously
   streamlined IF anybody bothers.

   As for Bill's code - probably STILL in a lot
   of stuff, almost unmodified.


>>     (and then the blood-signed contract ...  :-)
> 
> I remember shooting someone out of the saddle when
> she claimed that Lord Bill was a programming genius.
> He was no such thing - but he was a _marketing_ genius.


   I'll say he was a 'programming genius' ... but
   even MORE a 'marketing genius'.

   The little trick he pulled on IBM ... turned
   into BILLIONS .......

   I own a Tandy 'laptop'-like unit ... WAY before
   real laptops ... it's got everything you need,
   a crude word-processor and spreadsheet and BASIC
   and stuff PLUS a couple of serial/modem interfaces.
   It was a big fave with international news reporters
   because you could compose yer stuff, plug into most
   any standard phone line, and send it. Gates wrote
   most of the code ... allegedly the LAST code he
   ever personally wrote for a system.

   ANYhow ... Bill didn't START as 'evil' ...

   I'll give him THAT much slack.