[Wolves] O/T A story which may not be true about Bill

Andy Wootton andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk
Thu May 19 23:28:53 BST 2005


For a while I've had a nagging residue of a memory that I once heard 
that Bill's Mum was a Director of IBM when they picked DOS over CP/M. 
Yes children, I was already at work when the IBM PC came to the UK.

I decided at lunch time to try to find out if this was accurate since 
noone else I've asked could remember the story. It isn't (quite) true 
but what I found was even more interesting.

http://www.mackido.com/History/IBMs_choice.html

linked to (so you might miss it) from

http://www.mackido.com/History/Gates_a_Genius.html

Woo



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