Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:32:30 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Message-ID: <20010808153229.L78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010807150857.0483dd20@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:23:16PM -0600 References: <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15214.52633.581653.632317@guru.mired.org> <3B6F98D0.A3C22CC9@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010807150857.0483dd20@localhost>
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On Tuesday, 7 August 2001 at 15:23:16 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 01:29 AM 8/7/2001, Terry Lambert wrote:
>
>> IBM attempted several times to contact Digital Research
>> about licensing CP/M, but they never returned IBM's calls,
>
> Actually, they did. In fact, IBM came to visit. But DRI
> founder Gary Killdall left his significant other in
> charge that day.... She freaked out about signing the
> NDAs regarding IBM's PC business and sent them away.
That's the first time I've heard that version. The one I heard was
that Gary didn't want to meet them and went out flying.
Does anybody know when this was? I was at a conference in London in
early September 1980, and Gary and Bill Gates ("who?" I asked; I knew
very well who Gary was) were supposed to be there, Bill to talk about
the new Microsoft Operating System, XENIX (I kid you not). Bill did a
no-show, apparently because of some urgent business, but Gary showed
up.
>> and then their founder died.
>
> Many years after that. It happened in 1979, and Kildall
> died in 1995. He died relatively young, at 52. From
> complications following a fight in a bar.
Again, the first time I have heard that version. I heard he fell down
the stairs. Any background?
> "I may have invented it, but Microsoft made it popular."
>
> --IBM engineer David Bradley, inventor
> of the Ctrl-Alt-Delete key sequence
Note that the reboot sequence for CP/M was simply ^C. "Inventing"
Ctrl-Alt-Del was simply a matter of finding a new mapping for the
function.
Greg
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