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there is an urban legend that gary killdall almost got his CP/M operating system on the IBM PC, but his wife told them to screw while he was flying his plane if CP/M had been the primary os for the IBM PC and QDOS (and thus MS-DOS) never needed to exist, what would have happened? I know there would probably be no bill and melinda gates foundation and probably no windows what else?
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 22:50 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 08:55 |
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Bad.
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 22:53 |
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close thread weve reached the best post
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 23:54 |
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Agile Vector posted:close thread weve reached the best post not yet I want to hear some crazy theories like big-rear end smartphones with small CRTs and attached mechanical keyboards and poo poo
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 00:02 |
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 01:09 |
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Good, imho.
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 01:17 |
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"40 kb ought to be enough for anybody" -- gary kildall, founder of digital re$earch
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 01:26 |
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That Robot posted:there is an urban legend that gary killdall almost got his CP/M operating system on the IBM PC, but his wife told them to screw while he was flying his plane nothing because unix, the apex of operating system science, already existed. HTH OP
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 01:44 |
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why wont digital research document the bios?
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 01:47 |
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DR-DOS owned
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 03:06 |
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George posted:DR-DOS owned DOS, M.D.
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 03:14 |
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im back with more kildall imagine a command line os with even more 70s poo poo that should be enough kildall to last us awhile
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# ? Nov 21, 2016 03:34 |
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hello yes it has been 5 days and im not sure that that is long enough for the kildall quotient(the kq if you would)
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# ? Nov 26, 2016 05:37 |
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Dunno but Kildall did get to live the last few years of his life a pretty wealthy dude albeit not billionaire status.
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# ? Nov 26, 2016 05:57 |
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Seamonster posted:Dunno but Kildall did get to live the last few years of his life a pretty wealthy dude albeit not billionaire status. all that computer chronicles scratch
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# ? Nov 26, 2016 15:51 |
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Seamonster posted:Dunno but Kildall did get to live the last few years of his life a pretty wealthy dude albeit not billionaire status. Kildall was a massive drunk who died because he fell off his barstool and hit his head.
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# ? Nov 26, 2016 16:52 |
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Good way to go imo
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 00:19 |
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Jonny 290 posted:Good way to go imo His wife made up a story that he'd gotten into a fistfight with bikers. lmao
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 00:22 |
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the whole "gary's wife told IBM to gently caress off" thing really smacks of angry grognard misogyny to me
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 00:27 |
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tbh lots of people liked telling ibm to gently caress off
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 04:56 |
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did any of you cunts ever have to use c/pm for actual work? i did. it was really bad
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 06:11 |
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Agile Vector posted:tbh lots of people liked telling ibm to gently caress off taken too soon
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 07:45 |
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pram posted:taken too soon yeah, RIP IBm
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 05:11 |
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Sagebrush posted:the whole "gary's wife told IBM to gently caress off" thing really smacks of angry grognard misogyny to me i mean if the biggest name in the industry shows up with an NDA that says they can make commercial use of anything you tell them, you sign it and then BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU TELL THEM. dorothy was stupid and the company lawyer who counseled her was also stupid.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 05:37 |
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Dr. Honked posted:did any of you cunts ever have to use c/pm for actual work? i did. it was really bad - you have to log out (unmount) a disk before removing it - allowed filename characters vary among commands - files have to be read and written in 2k? windows Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Nov 28, 2016 |
# ? Nov 28, 2016 05:42 |
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Citizen Tayne posted:yeah, RIP IBm once heard an oracle employee call them "itty bitty machines"
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 05:44 |
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Dr. Honked posted:did any of you cunts ever have to use c/pm for actual work? i did. it was really bad i love your old war stories honked.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 05:52 |
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the pattern you see over and over in gary kildall's career is that he just couldn't deal with the thought of the industry moving ahead without him, on terms other than his own
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 05:54 |
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Citizen Tayne posted:yeah, RIP IBm
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 12:56 |
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carry on then posted:once heard an oracle employee call them "itty bitty machines" the itty bitty machine committee
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# ? Nov 29, 2016 01:30 |
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only time I used cpm was on my neighbour's apple ][ to write a letter
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# ? Nov 29, 2016 01:53 |
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Gazpacho posted:lets make a list cmon honked i know you have something to share
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# ? Nov 29, 2016 03:59 |
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pram posted:taken too soon yeah if the dummy in that photo had waited for the iphone 7 plus to come out he would have had an animated high definition harry potter photo instead of some blurry greyscale turd to look at
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# ? Nov 29, 2016 08:34 |
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Seamonster posted:Dunno but Kildall did get to live the last few years of his life a pretty wealthy dude albeit not billionaire status. dude fell off a ladder and died such an inglorious death for a p cool guy
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# ? Dec 2, 2016 20:56 |
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Dr. Honked posted:did any of you cunts ever have to use c/pm for actual work? i did. it was really bad I would like to hear details please; im genuinely interested
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# ? Dec 2, 2016 20:57 |
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I Like How he threw a ragefit because U Wash had gates give a keynote at an event where he was also invited. guy just couldn't stand not to be at the center of things
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# ? Dec 2, 2016 21:25 |
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That Robot posted:dude fell off a ladder and died its good to die while working like a Man
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# ? Dec 3, 2016 03:32 |
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lord knows I've tried
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# ? Dec 3, 2016 04:47 |
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Gazpacho posted:I Like How he threw a ragefit because U Wash had gates give a keynote at an event where he was also invited. guy just couldn't stand not to be at the center of things so that's what it was? i thought it was coz he couldn't think if anything else that would be groundbreaking
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# ? Dec 5, 2016 00:22 |
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That Robot posted:so that's what it was? i thought it was coz he couldn't think if anything else that would be groundbreaking Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Dec 5, 2016 |
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