Born in Seattle, Washington on 28, October 1956 , Gates was named William Henry after his father and grandfather . From the beginning he was an extremely energetic(精力充沛的)and intelligent(聪明的)child . He had read the entire world encyclopedia(百科全书)by the age of nine . His favourite subjects at school were science and maths and his favourite pastime was thinking .
Gates first started to play with computers at the age of 13 , when one was installed(安装)in his school . At that time , computers were large ,awkward (笨重的)machines . Operators were required to learn complex(复杂的)computer languages before the machines could be used . Even then , a great deal of time and effort was needed to perform the simplest functions . Before long ,Gates was expert at the school’s computer . After his graduation from the secondary school , Gates was accepted by the three top universities in the USA—Princeton , Harvard and Yale . He chose Harvard and began classes there the next autumn , majoring in maths . But he was still obsessed (占据心思的)with computer laboratories as he did in the lecture halls .
By 1975 , Gates and a partner , Paul Allen , had developed a software program called BASIC. This was not the first program ever created , but its inventors were the first to decide that people who wanted to use it should pay for it .
BASIC was a success because until it came along there had been no efficient(有效的)way of getting computers to carry out instructions . Although he had not yet completed his degree , Gates left university and went to work full time for the new company he had formed called DOS , short for Disk Operating System , and it was purchased(购买)by IBM in 1980 . Today it is the operating system used in more than 1 million personal computers around the world .
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