Bill Gates, who created Microsoft, sometimes borrowed ideas

Bill Gates, the founder of the giant in Microsoft, was once the richest person in the world. Today he is in 13th place. And it's great. However, not all of his ideas belonged to him.

Bill Gates old men are usually associated with Windows Me, Microsoft Bob, Zune. Microsoft demonstrates the history of glory and failures, writes Xrust. Such a trajectory is characteristic of many successful structures. Such a pierce began at the start of his business. Well, when he wrote the codes himself.

Among his mediocre programs was the Donkey racing game. Then this programming work was positioned as a video game written for the new IBM PC platform. She laid the foundations of the computer games industry. It is also the first racing game for IBM PC.

Donkey is implemented due to the fact that Gates managed to conclude an IBM contract for the development of both the operating system and the BASIC programming language. The OS that Microsoft put IBM was called MS-DOS. In fact, it was bought from the company Seattle Computer Products. There it was called 86-dos.

Microsoft modernized it in MS-DOS 1.1, and IBM initially called the novelty PC-DOS.