Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:23:16 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010807150857.0483dd20@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3B6F98D0.A3C22CC9@mindspring.com> References: <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15214.52633.581653.632317@guru.mired.org>
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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. Gary never got a second chance at fame or fortune, even when it was revealed that parts of MS-DOS 1.0 were direct translations of code from CP/M. >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. --Brett "I may have invented it, but Microsoft made it popular." --IBM engineer David Bradley, inventor of the Ctrl-Alt-Delete key sequence To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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