I didn’t have time to write everything I wanted to write yesterday, so I’m going to revisit Bill Gates and Gary Kildall today. Bill Gates’ side of the DOS story is relatively well documented in his biographies: Gates referred IBM to Gary Kildall, who for whatever reason was less comfortable working with IBM than Gates [...]
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Gary Kildall and what might have been
by Dave Farquhar on August 8, 2012
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Posted by Dave Farquhar on August 8, 2012
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