Linux is KING - Couldn't be hacked - Mac, Vista went down in flames

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Apr 4 02:35:16 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 19:12 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:

> Hey, be nice!  First off, remember Gary Kildall's company was Digital
> Research, Inc.--NOT Digital Equipment Corp. (at the time chaired by
> Ken Olson).
> 
> I worked for DRI on CP/M and MP/M.  There were some nomenclature and UI
> similarities between DEC's RT-11 or RSTS and CP/M, but they were NOT the
> same company--not by a long shot.  They were even on different coasts!
> 
> IBM went with Microsoft because they arrived for a meeting with Gary,
> but he was out flying his airplane and missed it.  IBM got ticked off
> and called Microsoft.  We've never been sure if IBM was a day early
> (as Gary always claimed) or Gary screwed up his calendar.  Either one is
> as likely as the other (IBM can be petulant and Gary could be very
> scatterbrained at times).
----
my memory of things ain't what it used to be but I vaguely remember that
Kildall was off hang gliding and not flying an airplane.

Craig




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