[TUHS] Paul Allen dead at 65.

Andy Kosela akosela at andykosela.com
Tue Oct 16 09:13:57 AEST 2018


On Monday, October 15, 2018, Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just saw this headline. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dead of cancer,
> aged 65. Relevancy to TUHS as Microsoft has been both a competitor to and
> supporter of both Unix and (much more recently) Linux.
>
> Allen also funded the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, where one can log
> into a real PDP-11/70 running 7th Edition Unix.
>
>
>
He was always the "good" side of Microsoft to me.  He left the company over
disagreements with Bill in early 80s though.

Great loss.

--Andy
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