Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : MRO
From : Moondog
Date : Wed May 18 2022 22:10:00

  Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 12 2022 03:41 pm

 >   Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
 >   By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Wed May 11 2022 06:53 am
 > 
 >  >
 >  >  Gary Kildall, the co-host with the beard, is the guy who famously
 >  >  missed an appointment with IBM and missed the opportunity to
 >  >  sell CPM/86 to them for the IBM PC.
 > 
 > he didn't miss it. his wife was going to handle the meeting.
 > he was on company business at another location.
 > 
 > His wife didn't want to sign the standard NDA without her husband.  she shou
 > ibm would have just bought them out.  i'm not sure if that's what they wante
 > 

Correct.  Folklore is he picked that day to go out flying his plane.  he had
flown to meet a customer earlier and met with IBM later.  Part of the NDA
back then included disavowment of any meetings or deals.  Gates could move
faster and sweetened the deal with undercutting DRI's pricing because he had
previously worked on creating IBM's BIOS and overheard things involved in the
next step of development.

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