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Article #22006Re: IBM PC prehistory (was Japanese Josephson breakthrough?)
From: Jack C. Armstrong
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 21:12
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 21:12
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>Also, is that story about Gary Kildal >blowing off a meeting with the IBMers to go flying true? No. However, it is true that he failed to ask how high (on the way up) when IBM asked him to jump. Meanwhile, in Seattle, P.T. Gates did just that, making a deal for someone else's software. The whole truth is a little more complicated, but not much.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-ses!aspen!jacka From: jacka@aspen.IAG.HP.COM (Jack C. Armstrong) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: IBM PC prehistory (was Japanese Josephson breakthrough?) Message-ID: <1360001@aspen.IAG.HP.COM> Date: 8 Jan 90 21:12:28 GMT References: <21559@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Organization: Information Architecture Group, HP Lines: 7