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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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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


 Bad.

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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003

Seamonster posted:

Dunno but Kildall did get to live the last few years of his life a pretty wealthy dude albeit not billionaire status.

Kildall was a massive drunk who died because he fell off his barstool and hit his head.

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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003

Jonny 290 posted:

Good way to go imo

His wife made up a story that he'd gotten into a fistfight with bikers. lmao

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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003

pram posted:

taken too soon

yeah, RIP IBm

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Apr 7, 2003

That Robot posted:

haha holy poo poo

so just gave up and then got drunk and hit his head on a barstool? :sad:

Yep.

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