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[AMPS] Care and Feeding of fragile egos

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Subject: [AMPS] Care and Feeding of fragile egos
From: wc6w@juno.com (Radio WC6W)
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 23:27:09 EST

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:51:52 -0800 "J. Bradshaw" <ac6tk@cybertime.net>
writes:

>As I remember, Bill Gates never did complete his university degree, he 
> dropped out to present an operating system called Disk Operating 
>System to IBM which was developing a device called a Personal Computer.

   Just for historical accuracy...

   Bill dropped out of school to co-author a Basic interpreter for the
Altair system in... 1975 or thereabouts.

   His big break with IBM didn't occur until about 6 years later when he
middle-manned DOS from its creator (who was paid a flat $50K) and then
per-copy licensed it to IBM for which folly we have all been paying
forever since.

   Incidently, the aforementioned creator committed suicide a few years
later.  

Abort, Retry, Fail,
   Marv  WC6W










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