2007-05-16 11:38:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Do your own homework!
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I saw the same question about a half hour ago. It's the same guy. He just signed up with a different user name, came back...and asked the same question again.
2007-05-16 11:41:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Gary Kildall did not blow off IBM when they were looking for an operating system for their new computer, IBM would not have gone to Bill Gates and there would have been no Microsoft.
Per
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_43/b3905109_mz063.htm
One fateful day in the summer of 1980, three buttoned-down IBMers called on a band of hippie programmers at Digital Research Inc. located in Pacific Grove, Calif. They hoped to discuss licensing DRI's industry-leading operating system, CP/M. Instead, DRI founder Gary Kildall blew off IBM to gallivant around in his airplane, and the frustrated IBMers turned to Gates for their operating system.
2007-05-16 12:06:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do no longer think of he has a lot direct impact, and that i think of he lost that direct impact a protracted time in the past. For the previous some years he performed the function of an execute to a large business corporation, no longer an engineer or developer anymore.
2016-12-17 14:44:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny I saw this same question only few days ago.
2007-05-16 11:42:09 · answer #4 · answered by Cupcake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋