25 Jun
2013
25 Jun
'13
1:16 p.m.
> cf. "Pirates Of Silicon Valley",
wherein Bill Gates COLD CALLS IBM to
> interest them in an OS!]
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Is Pirates worth watching? (if not, is it worth
watching in the sent of
Electric Dreams as it?s so bad you half to watch it?)
"First came Apple, and then IBM tried to compete with them, and Bill Gates
invented software"
No mention of minis, but maybe it was never intended to be anything
but micros; no existence of CP/M, TRS80, Commodore, etc.
It has Bill Gates COLD CALLING IBM to tell them what an OS is and that
they should have one! (There are many disputes of details, but it IS well
established that IBM went to Microsoft for BASIC, and even billg sent them
to DRI for CP/M, major culture clash at DRI, followed by Microsoft for the
OS.)
OTOH, some people think that the movie got some of the personalities
fairly close.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com