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244 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 10:22 UTC | HN request time: 1.102s | source

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skibz ◴[18 Jul 25 12:13 UTC] No.44603843[source]▶

I wish Gary was one of the people that the average joe associated with "people who are known for doing computer things", instead of only people such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

His accomplishments cannot be overstated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall#Recognition

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1. 0xEF ◴[18 Jul 25 16:56 UTC] No.44607058[source]▶

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He was brilliant, but he was not a predator, which is always part of the problem. We know names like Gates and Jobs because they stepped on the shoulders of others and ate anyone who stood in their way alive. History remembers the victors.

That should automatically tell us we shouldn't trust them, and yet fandoms and followings abound.

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CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download