From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 17303 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2021 01:48:09 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 7 Apr 2021 01:48:09 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 0A8069CAAA; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:48:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA399C723; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:47:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 3A5089C723; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:47:44 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C019C722 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:47:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (unknown [121.200.11.253]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F2F27FF8; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 01:47:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 726922635BE; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:47:42 +1000 (AEST) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:47:42 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Jon Steinhart Message-ID: <20210407014742.GA32218@eureka.lemis.com> References: <202104070110.1371AmUi223995@darkstar.fourwinds.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <202104070110.1371AmUi223995@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: Re: [TUHS] PC Unix (had been How to Kill a Technical Conference X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 6 April 2021 at 18:10:48 -0700, Jon Steinhart wrote: > Dave Horsfall writes: >> And unlike the popular urban myth, Gary Kildall was not out playing golf >> when IBM tried to contact him. > > The myth that I had always heard was that he was out flying his airplane. > I asked Tom Rolander about it a few years ago, and it turns out that it > is true but misleading; he was coming back from a customer visit, not > goofing off. Another hypothesis I had ties in with this: both he and Bill Gates were speakers at Euromicro 1980 in London, from 16 to 18 September. Bill Gates was a no-show. Would that fit in with Gary's "gone flying"? Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAmBtDz4ACgkQIubykFB6QiNvwACgkw/v9ubsoZ3u2bpqQehrpHJP ax4AnA7p0+ao8nKCxTAQFQZ24h4GSjb8 =ENXp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi--