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Kildall may have also invented ghosting. I remember watching a documentary. IBM officials showed up at Kildall's house twice to convince him to sell/license CP
by profsummergig 1y ago
Kildall may have also invented ghosting.
I remember watching a documentary. IBM officials showed up at Kildall's house twice to convince him to sell/license CP/M to them. Pre-planned meetings. He ghosted them both times. One of those times they waited hours for him.
- ghaff 1y agoThere's a lot of mythology around Kildall and IBM. I'm sure some it it even aligns with the facts but I don't put that much stock in many of the stories and theories.
- WalterBright 1y agoWe'll never know the truth.
- ghaff 1y agoPast some point, even people with some first-hand knowledge may not know the whole truth, filter things through their own biases, may just misremember, etc.
- WalterBright 1y agoMy dad kept a diary during his combat tour in WW2. Decades later, he read it and was shocked to discover that it did not quite line up with his memories. When I prepared a "history of D" for a paper a while back, I went looking through all my documents and emails and the D forum history looking to pin things down. I, too, discovered that my memories didn't match the facts as well as I wished it did. Memory is a funny thing. One should always be skeptical of accounts written long after the fact. I sometimes wonder how much of our written history is false. I support statutes of limitations because of this.
- xunil2ycom 1y agoLol. I'm sure you're kidding, but let's be clear: he didn't invent ghosting. He invented a lot of really cool stuff.