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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > what would computers be like if gary kildall's wife hadn't told ibm to fuck off
 
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pram
Jun 10, 2001

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

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?

nothing because unix, the apex of operating system science, already existed. HTH OP

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pram
Jun 10, 2001

Agile Vector posted:

tbh lots of people liked telling ibm to gently caress off



taken too soon

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