As we all know, Microsoft was the company that made the deal to license an operating system to IBM, and the rest is history. But before IBM contacted Microsoft, IBM first went to DRI for an operating system but failed to make a deal because DRI's CEO, Gary Kildall, was absent that day: http://bit.ly/1IHX4xc

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As we all know, Microsoft was the company that made the deal to license
an operating system to IBM, and the rest is history. But before IBM contacted Microsoft, IBM first went to DRI for an operating system but failed to make a deal because DRI's CEO, Gary Kildall, was absent that day: http://bit.ly/1IHX4xc

That was a real shame, CP/M-86 and especially MP/M-86 (which became Concurrent DOS or something) are far nice OSes than MS-DOS.

DRI had figured out multitasking OSes that actually worked for Z80s, with Microsoft we got to wait until Windows NT for the same functionality.



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Re: Gary Kildall could have been in Bill Gates' place today
By: Nightfox to All on Sun Mar 29 2015 09:51 am

As we all know, Microsoft was the company that made the deal to license an operating system to IBM, and the rest is history. But before IBM contacted Microsoft, IBM first went to DRI for an operating system but failed to make a deal because DRI's CEO, Gary Kildall, was absent that day: http://bit.ly/1IHX4xc

that's not an accurate account of what happened.
infact it's a very biased shitty sensationalized article.

also, gary had money. and he enjoyed life to the fullest. it's too bad
that he died
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Re: Gary Kildall could have been in Bill Gates' place today
By: Mro to Nightfox on Mon Mar 30 2015 22:01:19

Re: Gary Kildall could have been in Bill Gates' place today
By: Nightfox to All on Sun Mar 29 2015 09:51 am

As we all know, Microsoft was the company that made the deal to license a operating system to IBM, and the rest is history. But before IBM contact Microsoft, IBM first went to DRI for an operating system but failed to ma a deal because DRI's CEO, Gary Kildall, was absent that day: http://bit.ly/1IHX4xc

that's not an accurate account of what happened.
infact it's a very biased shitty sensationalized article.

also, gary had money. and he enjoyed life to the fullest. it's too bad
that he died

So...Tell us what did happen. I'm curious to know. I always understood that Gates "stepped in shit" with the DOS operating system.

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Re: Gary Kildall could have been in Bill Gates' place today
By: Hustler to Mro on Tue Mar 31 2015 12:47 pm

that's not an accurate account of what happened.
infact it's a very biased shitty sensationalized article.

also, gary had money. and he enjoyed life to the fullest. it's too bad that he died

So...Tell us what did happen. I'm curious to know. I always understood that Gates "stepped in shit" with the DOS operating system.

it's a pretty long story. look up his biography from a reliable source. it's interesting stuff.
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Re: Gary Kildall could have been in Bill Gates' place today
By: Hustler to Mro on Tue Mar 31 2015 12:47 pm

So...Tell us what did happen. I'm curious to know. I always understood that Gates "stepped in shit" with the DOS operating system.

Computer Chronicles did a Gary Kildall special and it is available on archive.org. It was very intersting.

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