[TUHS] PC Unix (had been How to Kill a Technical Conference

Michael Parson mparson at bl.org
Sat Apr 10 07:24:28 AEST 2021


On Wed, 7 Apr 2021, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 17:41:21
> From: Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>
> To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs at tuhs.org>
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] PC Unix (had been How to Kill a Technical Conference
> 
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, M Douglas McIlroy wrote:
>
>> IBM famously failed to buy the well-established CP/M in 1980. (CP/M had 
>> been introduced in 1974, before the advent of the LSI-11 on which LSX ran.) 
>> [...]
>
> And unlike the popular urban myth, Gary Kildall was not out playing golf when 
> IBM tried to contact him.

Gary Killdall was a host on PBS' "The Computer Chronicles" and they did
a story on him after his death that covers this, as well as other info
on his life and work with DRI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVqBokd3l2E

-- 
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX


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