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40. By "wrote DOS" you mean he "bought DOS", then yes.

Wed Sep 23, 2015, 04:47 PM

Sep 2015

IBM again approached Bill Gates. Gates in turn approached Seattle Computer Products. There, programmer Tim Paterson had developed a variant of CP/M-80, intended as an internal product for testing SCP's new 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU card for the S-100 bus. The system was initially named QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), before being made commercially available as 86-DOS. Microsoft purchased 86-DOS, allegedly for $50,000. This became Microsoft Disk Operating System, MS-DOS, introduced in 1981.[4]

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Why do Catholics [View all] clydefrand Sep 2015 OP

I feel the same way about Bill Gates. hunter Sep 2015 #1

Gates invented something. trumad Sep 2015 #3

Did he? hunter Sep 2015 #5

apple is a cult saturnsring Sep 2015 #7

And the difference between a cult and a religion is....? Iggo Sep 2015 #11

one gets taxed and the other helps people saturnsring Sep 2015 #14

Aw. Iggo Sep 2015 #16

The size of the congregation. cleanhippie Sep 2015 #48

He stole DOS from IBM and called it MS-DOS. Rex Sep 2015 #9

The rappers call it "sampling" Yavin4 Sep 2015 #18

Ha good one! Rex Sep 2015 #19

I thought he wrote DOS for IBM? arcane1 Sep 2015 #34

By "wrote DOS" you mean he "bought DOS", then yes. Yavin4 Sep 2015 #40

He took their idea and made it his own. Rex Sep 2015 #63

I believe he also stole ideas from Xerox. Baitball Blogger Sep 2015 #70

and this pope provides a sevice to billions of people saturnsring Sep 2015 #6

And kills millions PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #15

Oh for gods sakes yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #22

The Catholic Church is killing people. Millions. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #24

Ok. But that at least not yet is the pope yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #25

HIS bishops. HE has the power to stop that. Just like in Uganda. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #26

he has the power to change it in a day Angry Dragon Sep 2015 #30

Does he? Glassunion Sep 2015 #42

He most certainly can tell the bishops to stop organizing boycotts of vaccinations. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #43

True. Glassunion Sep 2015 #45

He can ORDER those bishops to stop fucking LYING to Kenyans about vaccines. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #44

See #45 Glassunion Sep 2015 #46

It says in your post the Catholic Kenyans did that treestar Sep 2015 #60

Read it again. Kenyan BISHOPS are doing that. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #61

others have answered for me Angry Dragon Sep 2015 #68

He is the head of their state, and bowing does occur. Glassunion Sep 2015 #69

he has the power to reassign and fire (that is my belief) Angry Dragon Sep 2015 #71

I believe that you are correct. Glassunion Sep 2015 #72

yes Angry Dragon Sep 2015 #29

The Catholic Church can't impose on anybody. treestar Sep 2015 #59

some people cant see through their own h8 saturnsring Sep 2015 #52

And some are blinded by dogma. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #55

Thankfully, there is a small contingent of humanity that are somewhere in between LanternWaste Sep 2015 #74

yea that's what he does he goes around killing people saturnsring Sep 2015 #51

Keep reading, chief. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #54

while i cant blame the church or the pope for people having unprotected sex i agree the rest saturnsring Sep 2015 #67

Services like misogyny, homophobia, and protecting pedophile priests? cleanhippie Sep 2015 #49

yup that's all he does, trashes women and gays while protecting pedo's that and nothing else saturnsring Sep 2015 #58

Do you deny that these are the policies of the church he heads? cleanhippie Sep 2015 #65

"invented" or "stole"? n/t Yavin4 Sep 2015 #17

No, he hit his daddy's friends up for money and BOUGHT something Warpy Sep 2015 #31

Bill Burr on Steve Jobs Yavin4 Sep 2015 #41

Catholics are FAR from alone in this. It's shameful. PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #2

this pope has not taken the lifestyle of the previous popes saturnsring Sep 2015 #4

That's a bit of a misconception LittleBlue Sep 2015 #8

Sort of like the White House treestar Sep 2015 #57

Exactly LittleBlue Sep 2015 #64

As apposed to the Crystal Cathedral or something like that? upaloopa Sep 2015 #10

Which is now owned by the Catholics n/t nichomachus Sep 2015 #33

What Catholics? upaloopa Sep 2015 #37

Diocese of Orange County nichomachus Sep 2015 #38

Oops! Almost forgot: IBTL. Iggo Sep 2015 #12

Pope Francis lives in modest quarters KamaAina Sep 2015 #13

Well, that's a Jesuit thing nichomachus Sep 2015 #35

Wasn't there a little something called the Reformation over this very issue? Arugula Latte Sep 2015 #20

If you believe the Reformation stuck because of religious differences Drahthaardogs Sep 2015 #23

Yes ... religion is a cesspool mixture of corruption, politics, greed, oppression and mythology. Arugula Latte Sep 2015 #36

Puritan legacy includes 1939 Sep 2015 #62

I can understand why a lot of Catholics LuvNewcastle Sep 2015 #21

A lot of that wealth originated in the Middle Ages The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2015 #27

Oh yeah? Well, ABRACADABRA! closeupready Sep 2015 #28

Why do Americans nichomachus Sep 2015 #32

+1 GeorgeGist Sep 2015 #47

This thought crossed my mine ChazII Sep 2015 #50

Dividends from stock holdings pay the Vatican's expenses oberliner Sep 2015 #39

Why do we keep the Military Industrial Complex rolling in money FreakinDJ Sep 2015 #53

The church had wealth from before the 13th century treestar Sep 2015 #56

This pope lives in a simple guest house with a bunch of other priests. n/t pnwmom Sep 2015 #66

To project power. Skidmore Sep 2015 #73