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that's the ugliest portrait i have ever seen! all of bill's millions can't fix that!
"One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888 Columbo moments... "Double Shock""The Greenhouse Jungle""Swan Song"FORUM RULES "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya." (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)
1986 when MS public a 10,000$ investment grew to 7.5 million in 2000.
but would have lost 1/2-2/3 since then.
see PARC XEROX WINDOWS MOUSE Menlo
Xerox then IBM had it made, dropped the ball, Gates picked it up and ran with it, Jobs tried.
I just love my Xerox computer running OS2!
Kinda makes me wonder what that Xerox exec in NY thought after
he told the lady in charge of PARC to go ahead and show Gates and Job
anything they wanted to see, since Xerox didn't see anything of value
in overlapping windows, Gui's or mice.
IBM's decison to go with OS2 instead of Windows just opened the door for
Gates and Compaq, HP etall.
actually, it IS quite amusing if you open experi-mentor's pic
"One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888 Columbo moments... "Double Shock""The Greenhouse Jungle""Swan Song"FORUM RULES "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya." (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)
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