Ed Goertzen replied:
> A further point, Did you know that Bill Gates "stole" some of the basic
> (oops) elements of the operating system that he coulsd not buy through an
> interesting process called "reverse engineering"
Yup, but he didn't even invent *this* ! "Reverse Engineering" is the
old o
Ed G
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Subject: Re: Knowledge - The New Frontier (Copyight &
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, Ed Goertzen wrote:
> I don't know how many readers participated in the birth of the computer
> era, but some may recall the part played by the old Vic 20 and the Commodor
> 64 with it's 1540 disk drive. Many a current geelk executive got their
> start in computers because the
Hi All:
The debate on the above subject is interesting and prompts me to share two
quotes from J. Bronowsky with the 'future-work' list as follows.
"Man survived the firece test of the ice ages because he has the
flexability of mind to recognise inventions and to turn them into community
propert
