Re: [OT] Free Software Company

[Sudhakar Chandra <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Babu Kalakrishnan proclaimed:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 03:35:34AM -0700, dodobh@xxxxxxxxxxx typed:
> > They hired Bill Gates because the person(s?) who was originally
> > supposed to write the OS decided to play golf than meet the IBM
> > representatives :). Bill Gates licensed DOS to demonstrate to IBM,
> > because he didn't have an OS available then.The rest is history.
> True - The president of Digital Research (forget his name) - riding high
> on the success of CP/M - didn't believe that IBM was really serious in
> stooping down to making lowly PCs !!


Gary Kildall.  That story of Kildall playing Golf / flying instead of
meeting the IBM suits is said to be an apocryphal one.

Thaths
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