> company (Digital research) he was off flying his plane. Gary's
> wife refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Gary took his
> time getting back to IBM and blew the deal of the century. Later
> Gary died in a plane crash.
As I mentioned before, He was present, but the FIRST deal was
rejected by both Gates and Kildall as unreasonable.
Gary died recently, quite on the ground. He stumbled and fell in a
bar, and apparently tore a blood vessel in his head. Although he seemed a
little confused, he refused medical treatment. His headache and confusion
worsened as the slow leak continued. He was dead three days later. The
article in the San Jose Mercury News went on to say that he was not an
alcoholic, since he did not drink all the time, but he did like to go out
drinking every once in a while. That had worsened after his company
Digital Research, was essentially run off the market by Microsoft.
His good nature, willingness to help other software entrepreneurs,
openness about setting standards to help develop add-on markets, all stand
in strong contrast to Gates' way of doing business. Gary, a university
professor, was never out to make a huge fortune, He believed strongly in
spreading the opportunities around to help others grow, often telling
others about projects he was working on, on TV and at conventions where he
often gave speeches and talks, even at the expense of letting his
competitors get a head start. He, and his philosophical approach to
business, are sorely missed by many, many developers. He laid some huge
foundation stones for this industry with his CP/M product line and his
various compilers.
> So, if Compaq chose to use the 8088 with Northstar's O/S (far
> superior to DOS at the time), they would sill have to have DOS
> because of the IBM (chip owner) and MS royalty agreement. Hence too costly.
The 8088 and 8086 chips, (And later the 80186 chip), were developed, in
part, under pressure from ITT, which wanted to use them in a massive
multi-processor ROM based device -- their new all digital telephone
switching system. They started with the 8085, found that inadequate, and
went up the line promising Intel huge orders for each. The reason for the
differentiation between program and data was because of the ROM , and the
extreme multi-tasking nature of the telephone switching environment. All
those strange segment registers came from ITT's need for ROM and extreme
multi-tasking. Had it succeeded, it would have been the world's largest
multi-processor computer system.
I worked on that at ATT's Advanced Technology Center in Connecticut,
in 1981. The project was later moved to North Carolina, and canceled
when they saw that they could not effectively manage software development
on that scale.
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