madman1969
madman1969 t1_j5m8av2 wrote
Reply to comment by Suspicious-Post-5866 in TIL that Microsoft's first operating system was Unix-based by GriffinFTW
Yep, he paid $50K for the rights to QDOS, which became MS-DOS.
Fun fact is QDOS was short for 'Quick & Dirty Operating System' :/
madman1969 t1_j42dicz wrote
Reply to comment by onewobblywheel in IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source by sector3011
As a developer on AIX systems back in the 90's, this doesn't surprise me.
madman1969 t1_j7s8g5n wrote
Reply to comment by somebodyelse22 in An F-16 fighter jet doing a high-speed low pass over a car as a "show of force" by qzs1
Dad was in the RAF and we lived on various bases my entire childhood.
In that entire time nothing was as loud as watching a Vulcan flypast at an airshow in the mid-70's. I remember a can of Coke resting on top of the car being shuffled across the roof as it flew by.