From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 7 23: 2:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A593137B409 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 23:02:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 087B96ACDC; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:32:30 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:32:30 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Message-ID: <20010808153229.L78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15214.52633.581653.632317@guru.mired.org> <3B6F98D0.A3C22CC9@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010807150857.0483dd20@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010807150857.0483dd20@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:23:16PM -0600 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 7 August 2001 at 15:23:16 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 01:29 AM 8/7/2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> IBM attempted several times to contact Digital Research >> about licensing CP/M, but they never returned IBM's calls, > > Actually, they did. In fact, IBM came to visit. But DRI > founder Gary Killdall left his significant other in > charge that day.... She freaked out about signing the > NDAs regarding IBM's PC business and sent them away. That's the first time I've heard that version. The one I heard was that Gary didn't want to meet them and went out flying. Does anybody know when this was? I was at a conference in London in early September 1980, and Gary and Bill Gates ("who?" I asked; I knew very well who Gary was) were supposed to be there, Bill to talk about the new Microsoft Operating System, XENIX (I kid you not). Bill did a no-show, apparently because of some urgent business, but Gary showed up. >> and then their founder died. > > Many years after that. It happened in 1979, and Kildall > died in 1995. He died relatively young, at 52. From > complications following a fight in a bar. Again, the first time I have heard that version. I heard he fell down the stairs. Any background? > "I may have invented it, but Microsoft made it popular." > > --IBM engineer David Bradley, inventor > of the Ctrl-Alt-Delete key sequence Note that the reboot sequence for CP/M was simply ^C. "Inventing" Ctrl-Alt-Del was simply a matter of finding a new mapping for the function. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message