Re: The American Dream


Quirk wrote:

~~== a little more form wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall ==~~

Friends and acquaintances reported Kildall was bitter at how MS-DOS,
whose design was almost entirely based on his own ideas in creating
CP/M, made Bill Gates and Microsoft famous while he languished in
obscurity. He was particularly piqued when the University of Washington
asked him, as a distinguished graduate, to attend their computer
science program anniversary in 1992, but gave the keynote speech to
college dropout Bill Gates. Kildall died in 1994 of uncertain causes in
Monterey, California at the age of 52. Some reports say he fell off of
a bar stool at the Franklin Street Bar and Grill in Monterey on July 8
and died of internal bleeding three days later.

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