At 02:11 PM 7/2/1998 -0700, Javilk so eloquently stated:
>> 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.
>
I stand corrected. He was in a recent issue of movers and
shakers in the computer industry in Forbes Magazine, and they did
clarify that.
But, his failure to do business with IBM was his own doing
according to Computer Wars and a couple of other sources. The
article in Forbes is quite good.
George
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