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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