The Doc got it all right...just wanted to add that Gary Kildahl, who died a
bunch of years ago, was one of the originals that started this whole
craziness. He was a pure scientist and brilliant, an amazing coder, but he
wasn't good at (or didn't even care very much about business or even much
about money). I kind of find it sad, that unlike some other
industries/cultures that those of us in Hi Tech don't have much of a sense
of history, maybe it's me or maybe because the "biz" moves so fast.
Mike Wafkowski
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Shepard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: What was Gore's Role in Inventing the Internet?
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Keith Kern wrote:
>
> > I heard that Gates stole dos from IBM when he was working for them. Then
he
> > modified it a little and put it out on the market at MS-DOS, instead of
IBM's
> > PC-DOS. Then he just kept modifing it and then put a gui interface with
it,
> > Windows 2.0.
>
> IBM first approached Gary Killdahl of Digital Research (he wrote CP/M)
to
> license CP/M for their new, smart terminals (a.k.a. PCs). But, Gary stood
> them up at the scheduled meeting because he preferred to be flying his
> plane. IBM was rather pissed off at this. Gates, as Microsoft, had either
> purchased or licensed Seattle Computer Products DOS 1.0. They and IBM
struck
> a deal because they could actually meet and talk about it. All else is
> history. And if Gary had been a sharper businessman, PCs would have been
> running CP/M rather than DOS.
>
> Rich
>
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