Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Not hard to write one of those really. I could manage it, and frankly, I 
> am not that great a programmer.

It's not hard to do it poorly. It can be quite tricky to do it well, 
especially on unforgiving hardware (i.e., slow and small) to the point 
where it's better than the competition.

> DOS and the rest didn't need to be well designed, efficient, 
> complex, or even smart 

You *are* aware that DOS was *supposed* to be source-compatible with 
CP/M, basically, right?

Not that I'm saying Gates was a great programmer or anything. Just that 
saying "evidence he was a bad programmer is that PC-DOS was compatible 
with its predecessors" is illogical.

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