#Linus Torvalds in ascii art easy ascii software
#Linus Torvalds in ascii art easy ascii code

Steve Wozniak, aka the Woz designs a small integrated circuit around a 6502, that taps into the AT&T network to tell people jokes in exchange for advice on the best chess moves.

#Linus Torvalds in ascii art easy ascii code

At the end of the day, Linus’ program wins the second round, and Linus is still working on the code today, so kudos for that. In the corner of room, Richard Stallman insists that he did most of the work and that he gets to choose the name of the chess program. There are sixteen different user interfaces none of them works quite right, but that’s supposed to be OK because you can fix them yourself and it’s the only user interface that takes advantage of 6 mouse buttons.

#Linus Torvalds in ascii art easy ascii software

Since he’s not coding alone, his chess-playing software soon runs on wristwatches and supercomputers, has a graphical user interface, speaks english, mandarin, bask and klingon, and plays go, 3D chess and three star-trek variants of the chess game if you give it the right command-line options. Somehow, people notice and start coding with him. Linus Torvalds starts writing a small chess program, and announces on the Internet that he’s working on a small thing, nothing fancy like Bill’s work. He packages it with his own assembly language code called Microsoft BASIC (Beginners Automated System Integrating Consciousness), and by end of the day, he has already sold several million copies, announced a multitasking version and a graphical user interface, allowing him to put is dysfunctional software on 90% of all computers sold on the planet.

Within two hours, he has used IBM’s money to purchase an ASCII-art chess program called Quick and Disappointing Opening Strategy. At the same time, he signs a contract with IBM, convincing the inventors of Watson that they should use his chess program. The goal is to write the best chess playing program.īill Gates starts scribbling self-rewriting Z80 assembly language, punching holes in a paper strip. Quora asks: Who would win a coding competition between Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak and Bill Gates?Below is my answer ( upvote it on Quora if you like it):