[TUHS] Paul Allen dead at 65.

[ron minnich]

A terrible loss IMHO, just considering StratoLaunch alone.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 4:22 PM Andy Kosela <akosela at andykosela.com> wrote:

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> On Monday, October 15, 2018, Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Allen also funded the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, where one can
>> log into a real PDP-11/70 running 7th Edition Unix.
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> He was always the "good" side of Microsoft to me.  He left the company
> over disagreements with Bill in early 80s though.
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> Great loss.
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> --Andy
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