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Bill Gates Honors Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen: He 'Changed My Life' (people.com)
In an article published to the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Bill Gates reflected on Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's life and the impact Allen had on him. Paul Allen passed away last Monday from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 65. People Magazine reports: "I met Paul Allen when I was in 7th grade, and it changed my life, Gates wrote in the Journal. "I looked up to him right away. He was two years ahead of me in school, really tall, and proved to be a genius with computers... Eventually, we were spending just about all our free time messing around with any machine we could get our hands on." The two would often sneak off during late hours to use the computers at the University of Washington, something Gates said he wouldn't have had the nerve to do without Allen by his side.
Back then, Allen was able to foresee how powerful and essential computers would one day become. When Allen came across an issue of Popular Electronics that featured a powerful computer that was going to be released, he convinced Gates to join him in placing all of their focus into getting in on the computer industry before it took off without them. "That moment marked the end of my college career and the beginning of our new company, Microsoft," Gates recalled, adding that Allen's talents largely helped to make Microsoft successful at its inception. "As the first person I ever partnered with, Paul set a standard that few other people could meet. He had a wide-ranging mind and a special talent for explaining complicated subjects in a simple way." In closing, Gates wrote: "Paul was cooler than I was. He was really into Jimi Hendrix, and I remember him playing 'Are You Experienced?' for me. I wasn't experienced at much of anything back then, and Paul wanted to share this amazing music with me. That's the kind of person he was. He loved life and the people around him, and it showed."
Back then, Allen was able to foresee how powerful and essential computers would one day become. When Allen came across an issue of Popular Electronics that featured a powerful computer that was going to be released, he convinced Gates to join him in placing all of their focus into getting in on the computer industry before it took off without them. "That moment marked the end of my college career and the beginning of our new company, Microsoft," Gates recalled, adding that Allen's talents largely helped to make Microsoft successful at its inception. "As the first person I ever partnered with, Paul set a standard that few other people could meet. He had a wide-ranging mind and a special talent for explaining complicated subjects in a simple way." In closing, Gates wrote: "Paul was cooler than I was. He was really into Jimi Hendrix, and I remember him playing 'Are You Experienced?' for me. I wasn't experienced at much of anything back then, and Paul wanted to share this amazing music with me. That's the kind of person he was. He loved life and the people around him, and it showed."
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from the man that wanted to kick him out of the company he co-created. Very nice indeed. Not.
Amazing what a few determined pot heads can do. And now hes let some business fuck fuck up what was at one time one of the greatest technology companies that existed. Now look at what it has turned into.
https://www.cnet.com/news/paul-allen-gates-ballmer-tried-to-rip-me-off/
Bill Gates (and later with Steve Ballmer) repeatedly tried to screw Paul Allen out of his shares of Microsoft stock. That is the true story of Bill Gates, not all this love-fest BS now that Allen is gone.
The True Story is that Gates and Allen hated each other and Allen was a patent troll after he left Microsoft. But yeah, what a lovefest.
george orwell would be proud of how gates whitewashed history in this piece, especially using harvard's computer to write their emulator (which was hardly a novel idea) to launch their product - read an older book like Hard Drive (early 90s) before the whitewashing started to get the real story
so why'd you try to fuck him like a bitch, Bill?
https://www.cnet.com/news/paul-allen-gates-ballmer-tried-to-rip-me-off/
spend eternity with our Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven rather than burning in the fires of Hell
That's a pretty crappy choice.
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He played the guitar for me, and then we made nerd love in the glow of the monitors.
and absolutely despised coral reefs.
FTFA :
Allen was able to foresee how powerful and essential computers would one day become.
When was this : 1974/5 ? I was there, and every thinking person under the age of 25 foresaw it too.
I was at a Microsoft Christmas party in about 1990 (+/- a year). Bill Gates and Paul Allen were there talking to each other. Their body language was that they were old friends, not mortal enemies. This would have been seven years or so after the date mentioned in the cnet article. So, even if the article was true, which I doubt, then they had patched up their differences by then.
I can only guess it was this issue they're talking about..
The Altair 8800 ran an Intel 8080 at 2Mhz and had up to 4K of RAM. No keyboard, no video, no printer, no expansion ports.
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Abo...
Really, a very nice memorial.
"We receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us" - Faraday
Very kind words from Bill. It made me wish I would have known Paul Allen. We all start off young and full of high spirit; try not to lose that as you get older!.
M$ changed my life (for the better overall imo - gave me a career for 24 yrs. or so) but now it's Linux time: So far for the MOST part?
Linux: I'm on it from now on (along w/ MacOS X fairly soon) as it's pretty good on KUbuntu/KDE Plasma 18.04 fully patched (yes, it has its hangups in KDE now & then but 99/100 times it WILL recover (after a 2-3 minute wait sometimes which I DO NOT LIKE but am patient with)).
I still think Windows 7 patched & tuned right is better on STABILITY!
(e.g. hangups like I describe above do NOT happen near as much (2-3x a day in KDE sometimes)).
Am THINKING of trying what Mr. T uses from what I hear in xfce. Heard it's light & stable.
Pretty KDE Plasma has keeps me coming back though (did Linux on/off since 1994, 1999, 2010 over decades - knew THIS TIME was coming inevitably & even told MS mgt. it (here on /. & via email too)).
FREE that works? Good enough for me (& router makers etc. too) + INNOVATION is hard. Catchup ball imitation isn't. MS faced that. Inevitability.
DISCOVER gui updater 'hangs' @ times too - but can be unhung after via 5-7 tty term commands (dependencies in Linux are its undoing too - I installed a 'whois' program from the repositories & it CAUSED it without a doubt (imo & findings)).
HOWEVER - like I said? It's free, it works, I can build decent tools of my own programmatically in it via Lazarus 1.8.2 + FreePascal 3.04 both patched like (you KNOW I'm gonna do a 'shameless plug' ("it's my job" lol)) APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ for Linux https://it.slashdot.org/commen... & Linux? Hey - it's going to without a doubt, get better - for FREE!
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I'd like to ADD that the hangups I see in KDE (per SysGuard) are largely FIREFOX caused (both the shell & it spike CPU + disk I/O).
Yes, I think a stint on xfce ALONE will make the TRUE determination of WHO the culprit is on what I said here https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
* Only way to REALLY determine that is elimination of 1 possible (in this case the OS GUI desktop shell OR possibly the NVidia driver too & TRY xfce or a distro bearing it...)
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