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Comment by pdw

3 months ago

Bill Gates did not write it by himself, Paul Allen and Monte Davidoff also worked on it. And they did not have a finished product after 8 weeks -- only a demo. The first commercial release was "version 2", half a year later.

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pcunite  3 months ago

Podcast with Monte Davidoff

https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-113-monte-davidoff...

Starts after about the first 15 minutes.

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