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Gary Kildal - The man who could have become Bill Gates.
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| Gary Kildall was an computer instructor at the
| U.S. Naval Postgraduate school in Monterey,
| California. In 1974 he saw an ad for an Intel
| processor and called the company to offer his
| services. He was hired to write programming
| tools for the new Intel 4004 microprocessor.
| When Intel introduced the 8008 and 8080 models
| he wrote a high-level language for them that
| made the processor infinitely more useful. You
| could give English-like commands to the chip
| instead of talking in 0s and 1s.
|
| When Intel developed the world's first floppy
| disk system, the company decided not to sell
| it to the public. Kildall asked if he could
| sell a version. He invented the first DOS
| (disk operating system) and called it CP/M or
| control program for microprocessors. It could
| keep track of peripherals like a monitor or a
| disk drive.
|
| His friends said he wrote it by himself,
| effortlessly, which showed his tremendous
| aptitude for writing computer code. They also
| wondered why anybody would possibly want an
| operating system for a single user. Kildall
| wasn't in it for the money, but for the joy of
| being able to do it.
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http://www.ghabuntu.com/2010/01/gary-kildal-man-who-could-have-become.html
"He [Bill Gates] is divisive. He is manipulative. He is a user. He has
taken much from me and the industry."
-Gary Kildall
Recent:
Steve Jobs and Sir Tim Berners-Lee baffle the Brits
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| Microsoft boss Bill Gates was the most
| well-known but 5% of the group thought he
| was a comedian or a famous thief.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8458880.stm
Old:
Hasta la Vista, part 1: Microsofts final death march
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| Unfortunately, Bill Gates is not a wizard.
| Even worse, he is a bad programmer. When
| Martin Eller, a Microsoft programmer, found
| an error in the flood fill routine of the MS-
| Basic interpreter, he exclaimed "Which moron
| wrote this brainless sh*t?" only to find out
| it was Gates himself who wrote the "brainless
| sh*t". I think it is safe to say that Bill
| Gates is hardly the technical wizard he would
| so much like to be.
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http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2007/07/hasta-la-vista-part-1-microsofts-final.html
programmers at work
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| Bricklin sent waves of laughter through
| the auditorium by reading a passage from
| Lammers' interview with Bill Gates in
| which the young Microsoft founder
| explained that his work on different
| versions of Microsoft's BASIC compiler
| was shaped by looking at how other
| programmers had gone about the same task.
| Gates went on to say that young
| programmers don't need computer science
| degrees: "The best way to prepare is to
| write programs, and to study great
| programs that other people have written.
| In my case, I went to the garbage cans at
| the Computer Science Center and I fished
| out listings of their operating systems."
|
| Bricklin finished reading Gates' words
| and announced, with an impish smile,
| "This is where Gates and [Richard]
| Stallman agree!"
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http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002646.html
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