From: Michael Parson <mparson@bl.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] PC Unix (had been How to Kill a Technical Conference
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 16:24:28 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ffeceaae-d8fb-7693-cda2-686e6d5d21@bl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2104070835090.44871@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Wed, 7 Apr 2021, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 17:41:21
> From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
> To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-09 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-06 15:35 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-04-06 17:09 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-06 17:32 ` Charles H Sauer
2021-04-06 20:11 ` Josh Good
2021-04-06 20:26 ` Jim Capp
2021-04-06 20:47 ` Charles H Sauer
2021-04-07 16:42 ` Josh Good
2021-04-07 18:04 ` Charles H. Sauer
2021-04-07 2:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-07 6:04 ` arnold
2021-04-07 16:01 ` heinz
2021-04-06 21:06 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-07 0:58 ` heinz
2021-04-07 1:37 ` Warner Losh
2021-04-07 3:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-07 2:30 ` Ed Bradford
2021-04-07 2:44 ` Charles H. Sauer
2021-04-06 20:20 ` Boyd Lynn Gerber
2021-04-06 22:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-07 1:10 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-04-07 1:47 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-04-07 1:49 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-04-07 1:58 ` Larry McVoy
2021-04-07 2:31 ` Serge Burjak
2021-04-09 21:24 ` Michael Parson [this message]
2021-04-10 3:33 ` Ed Bradford
2021-04-10 15:12 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-10 15:41 ` Larry McVoy
2021-04-07 0:59 Jason Stevens
2021-04-10 18:12 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
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