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The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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 Some material came from an unpublished memoir penned by Kildall after the University of Washington, where Kildall earned a PhD, picked Harvard dropout Gates as keynote speaker for the 25th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."

2 of 458 comments (clear)

  1. gmail from mbonig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:Wrong persuasion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please tell us more about your great 'bi' mac....

    DO NOT refer to it a dual processor, but as 'bi'...

    check his journal on Macslash....
    Wednesday June 09, 04
    03:04 AM - The bi-2,5GHz is here
    OK, the AppleStore is currently closed but my Swiss reseller has it now : the bi 2,5GHz has come, it is sold for the same price has the bi-2GHz which has dropped in price to its younger sibling's former price. Other specs seems to be the same as previously (160GB, 512MB...)

    http://macslash.org/~mirko/journal/ [macslash.org]

    Yea...your not teh ghey!