>>11627431>Was he really a genius?That's a strong word. But making a PC OS from scratch and getting it to a functional level is an awful lot of work and there's tons of technical details. He was a good programmer.
>How much has the field of computer science lost without him?Nothing. It was a toy OS. Could be fun to play with and can be used to learn, but there was nothing new there and it wasn't very useful.
He should have spent his effort contributing to serious OS projects or some some useful applications.
I guess he will be remembered for much longer because of all of the memes though so there's that.
