The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @01:04AM from the stuff-to-read dept.

theodp writes "BusinessWeek discusses They Made America, a new book which claims Bill Gates got the rewards due Gary Kildall. The book attacks the reputations of key early PC era players - Gates, IBM, and QDOS programmer Tim Paterson - asserting that Paterson copied parts of Kildall's CP/M and that IBM tricked Kildall, allowing Gates to prevail and depriving Kildall of untold riches and credit for a seminal role in the PC revolution. Some material came from an unpublished memoir penned by Kildall after the University of Washington, where Kildall earned a PhD, picked Harvard dropout Gates as keynote speaker for the 25th anniversary of its CS program."

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Hey wait a minute by antifoidulus · 2004-10-19 01:06 · Score: 5, Funny

After reading the title, I thought this was going to be about Steve Jobs!

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I was going to read the article but... by Burb · 2004-10-19 01:42 · Score: 5, Funny

my 8" floppy disk died and I had an error message "BDOS ERR ON A: BAD SECTOR". Then I mistyped the PIP command and I had the error message "BDOS ERR ON A: BAD SECTOR"...

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Re:Wrong person by An+ominous+Cow+art · 2004-10-19 03:00 · Score: 5, Funny

This sounds like an invitation to start a viagra vs. emacsagra flame war.