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From: Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Paul Allen dead at 65.
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:13:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALMnNGiqmXnW=ofHGcM++kP-qFcSDkYA0VDFhHHSS6dSQ0aOpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W4SbJZHO0TOuNn=fQXvc=Xs=rigMM4rkbY4H3xP2URhxA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Monday, October 15, 2018, Dan Cross <crossd@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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  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-15 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-15 22:18 Dan Cross
2018-10-15 23:13 ` Andy Kosela [this message]
2018-10-16  0:43   ` ron minnich
2018-10-15 23:08 Norman Wilson

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