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erick
22-09-2010, 10:05 AM
Wikipedia on Bill Gates:-

"After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities, Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students."
leon
22-09-2010, 10:22 AM
Very clever indeed, yea he must have been a bit of a outstanding person.

Leon
renormalised
22-09-2010, 11:57 AM
He was bright, but he was more of a businessman than a programmer. He dropped out of uni to start Microsoft. Still, his programming skills were fairly good.

His original business partner was a better programmer than he was, and also a lot older (in his 30's....Gates was only 19 or so).
Terry B
22-09-2010, 12:16 PM
But did it help him with the girls?;)
renormalised
22-09-2010, 12:23 PM
Well, he did marry and has two kids:):P

So that means even an ubergeek can get the girl:P:P
AstralTraveller
22-09-2010, 12:28 PM
Someone who knows a lot more about this than I reckons Bill's biggest contribution to early programming efforts was buying the pizzas and coke for the real geeks.
that_guy
22-09-2010, 12:43 PM
I read the thread title and thought it was about me :P:P:P :rofl::lol:
AstralTraveller
22-09-2010, 12:46 PM
No chance of me making that mistake.
Steffen
22-09-2010, 12:55 PM
- Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)

Explains a lot, really ;)

Cheers
Steffen.
renormalised
22-09-2010, 01:23 PM
Well, you only have to look at DOS/Win to see that:):P
Octane
22-09-2010, 02:50 PM
Did it help him out with girls? I think it did; his wife is gorgeous.

H
taminga16
22-09-2010, 08:05 PM
My son Simon met Bill Gates on several occasions whilst working on board Paul Allen's yacht 'Tatoosh" and he always says that Melinda Gates is Bill's one redeeming feature.
Greg.
leon
22-09-2010, 08:48 PM
Ah Guys we are all just jealous, good luck to him and is mate, where would most of us the ordinary computer people with out windows.

Leon
RickS
22-09-2010, 08:59 PM
We'd be using the command line like god intended :D
that_guy
22-09-2010, 09:15 PM
Now wats that supposed to mean? :P
AstralTraveller
22-09-2010, 09:52 PM
Well ... no. The GUI predates MS.
RickS
22-09-2010, 10:07 PM
Yes, but MS popularized it, albeit not on their first attempt.
mithrandir
22-09-2010, 10:08 PM
X-Windows rules.
RickS
22-09-2010, 10:29 PM
Especially when combined with a shell window or two :thumbsup:
Steffen
22-09-2010, 10:30 PM
There have indeed be many GUI OSes before MS Windows. And yes, it is hard to imagine how advanced personal computing could be today if it hadn't been held hostage by MS for two decades…

Cheers
Steffen.