Posted by usetabesteve on March 25, 2009 at 12:14:40 from (168.166.54.11):
In Reply to: wasn't high school posted by buickanddeere on March 25, 2009 at 08:42:30:
Not to take anything away from him because he was and is brilliant, but he was also in the right place at the right time. He got a contract to develop an operating system for IBM. IBM wanted to bypass the dominant operating system seller at that time. MS-DOS was sort of backward-engineered (polite term) from that other operating system and ran on the same chips as the other operatin system.
The technology developed later and Gates was smart enough to make some good choices among the many developments made available to him. He didn't really develop much on his own but he was a much better judge of competing ideas than most of his peers.
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