history is hard

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com
Sun May 24 10:17:20 CDT 2020


On 5/24/20 2:28 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>  
> 
> Either way, changing it from IBM not wanting to deal with DR into Bill 
> Gates cold calling IBM to tell them "what an operating system is" is 
> totally invalidating, marginalizing, and misrepresenting a significant 
> aspect of the microcomputer culture, and the people who made it.  (AND 
> is ridiculously insulting to the IBM culture to state that they didn't 
> know what an operating system is!)
> 

Even more-so in todays light when you realize that IBM was doing
Virtualization in the 70's.

bill



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