-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Another question
- From: Mstrauss24@xxxxxxx
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 01:33:30 EDT
In a message dated 10/4/2004 12:33:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
wooledge001@xxxxxxxx writes:
> If they came up in search, all you have to do is copy the long addys you
> cannot figure out and paste them in to a text file with notepad and save them
> and the notepad file like Cris suggested. But yes I agree it is simpler and
> to me makes more sense to use the recycle bin. That's why Uncle Bill has
> made
> it part of windows, just like the did the fine folks at Apple did before
> Uncle Bill even dreamed about windows and was still selling all us DOS to
> which
> he bought the rights from another company and conned IBM into using it on
> their first PCs.
> Dave
Hi Dave,
Sorry to burst your bubble and I know we all like to dislike 'Billy-Bob'
Gates but I think you have your History of Microsoft a bit off:
IBM went to several programers and asked them if they could come up with an
operating system for their computers.
Everyone before Gates said "NO."
Gates told them he could -- even though he didn't have one.
He approached the person who owned DOS and purchased it from him.
Then he went to IBM and tried to get them to hire him so he could further
develop the DOS system using their facilities. BIG BLUE [IBM] among their many
blunders under the then CEO [his name escapes me at the moment] refused to hire
him and told him he'd have to do it on his own.
He did -- Ergo --'Microsoft' who then licensed DOS to IBM and any other
company that would purchase it.
He then reinvested the money with his friend and partner at the time and they
got the best programming minds that they could and developed "Windows." I
think almost everyone knows the history of Microsoft from there on [Around 1992
-- I believe]. The 2d Windows, was Windows 95.
As for bypassing the Recycle bin -- I really would not advise it for anyone
unless they are "Power Users" [Advanced in computer know-how] and have a lot of
items their constantly deleting, The only persons I would recommend this for
is an IT/MIS person who may be monitoring incoming mail for a company [I did
this about 3 years back] and has lots of mail he/she is deleting. Even then,
I used to hold the mail for a week before deleting it from the holding server.
-- You never know, and once permanently deleted, only a very expensive other
program could attempt [with no guarantee] to retrieve it.
Emma
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