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RE: My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born
Yeah - Bill Gates saw the future of the multimedia PC alright - and he was terrified of it! Knowing what he had to work with, and seeing the Amiga computer already doing desktop video and audio - and truly multitasking in 4096 colours (remember when this was - in graphic 'mode' the PC had only 4, and you couldn't choose them!) -- he then bent his best efforts at undermining the Amiga as a 'serious' computer. Also - as the article notes, at the same time he was 'blue-skying' the multimedia PC of the future.

I think it was about 2001 that PC's first approached the multimedia levels of the 1985 Amiga (though still slow graphically) and it has taken a revolution in add-on hardware to get where we are today. But - please don't try to pass BG off as some kind of visionary! An amazing man, incredible marketer (using both clean and dirty tactics) but NEVER a visionary...
Posted by: Freebird54   Posted on: 07/01/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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BG Saw It Coming  winski | 06/30/08
Worst  Richard Flude | 06/30/08
Jobs will get his too  josh@... | 06/30/08
MS credited with the multimedia PC  Richard Flude | 06/30/08
your talkback is hilarious and inaccurate  josh@... | 07/01/08
Geez Josh  winski | 07/01/08
Proves my point  Richard Flude | 07/01/08
What MS created.  Brian G | 07/02/08
Yikes!  linux for me | 07/02/08
Folks Like You Are Apt to Snicker  josh@... | 06/30/08
He got 50 billion more things right  Pliny the Elder | 06/30/08
Yup, lying, cheating, stealing, anti-competitve practices,  fr0thy2 | 07/01/08
So back up your claims  winski | 06/30/08
re-read the post, please  josh@... | 07/01/08
Sorry (not)  winski | 07/01/08
And check out the heading  Richard Flude | 07/01/08
RE: My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born  TomMariner | 06/30/08
Irony is Hard Sometimes  josh@... | 07/01/08
Absolutely not!  winski | 07/01/08
Agreed. In fact I remember some quote  fr0thy2 | 07/01/08
No Web without Multimedia PCS  josh@... | 07/01/08
Enough  Richard Flude | 07/01/08
RE: My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born  Freebird54 | 07/01/08
RE: My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born  GregY | 07/04/08

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