[Gllug] MS grumbles (was: take a lookat my photos on Facebook)

[Dan Kolb]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 06:48:05PM +0000, Christopher Currie wrote:
> Someone wrote that Bill G decided against passwords in about 1989. No, 
> presumably in 1980-1, when he bought what became MS-DOS. With the 8-bit OSs I 
> was used to, I was *astonished* to discover, when I started having to use MS-
> DOS, that it had no passwords.

Yes, it's just shocking that a single-user, single-tasking OS, designed for a
standalone computer didn't think that passwords were necessary.

Dan
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