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Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52

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Date	2023-09-16 10:06 -0700
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Subject	Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52
From	Douglas Miller <durgadas311@gmail.com>

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On Saturday, September 16, 2023 at 11:48:00 AM UTC-5, KP2 KP2 wrote:
> I heard that Bill had reversed engineered CP/M and made DOS out of it. Only if Digital Research was Microsoft.

I think Seattle Computer Products actually did the "dirty work" and MS just purchased their "rip-off" and ran with it. But, either way, I recall looking at the internals of the first version of PC-DOS and realizing that it was, architecturally, essentially CP/M. But just looking at what DRI did for the PC vs. the state of MS-DOS makes one wish that. Think about how long it took MS to actually get any OS that was truly multi-tasking, let alone stable.

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Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 KP2 KP2 <jungletrain@outlook.com> - 2023-09-11 18:00 -0700
  Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2023-09-12 15:16 -0400
    Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Aron Hoekstra <nullvalue@gmail.com> - 2023-09-12 20:25 -0700
      Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Captain Nemo <nemo@nowhere.org> - 2023-09-13 09:31 +0000
        Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2023-09-13 20:45 -0400
        Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2023-09-14 10:55 +1000
          Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Douglas Miller <durgadas311@gmail.com> - 2023-09-13 18:47 -0700
            Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Captain Nemo <nemo@nowhere.org> - 2023-09-14 09:30 +0000
              Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Douglas Miller <durgadas311@gmail.com> - 2023-09-14 04:55 -0700
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2023-09-16 16:38 +1000
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Douglas Miller <durgadas311@gmail.com> - 2023-09-16 04:01 -0700
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 KP2 KP2 <jungletrain@outlook.com> - 2023-09-16 09:47 -0700
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Douglas Miller <durgadas311@gmail.com> - 2023-09-16 10:06 -0700
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2023-09-16 17:34 +0000
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2023-09-17 12:59 -0400
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 "comp.os.cpm" <philg@talk21.com> - 2023-09-19 09:42 -0700
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 "comp.os.cpm" <durgadas311@gmail.com> - 2023-09-19 10:02 -0700
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2023-09-16 18:24 -0400
            Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2023-09-14 09:06 -0400
          Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2023-09-13 22:16 -0400
      Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Paolo Amoroso <paolo.amoroso@gmail.com> - 2023-09-14 02:50 -0700

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