9 Apr
2021
9 Apr
'21
11:24 p.m.
On Wed, 7 Apr 2021, Dave Horsfall wrote:
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 17:41:21
From: Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] PC Unix (had been How to Kill a Technical Conference
On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, M Douglas McIlroy wrote:
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
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.