Comment by chasil
8 months ago
What is interesting to consider is if Dave Cutler had not been available or otherwise did not choose Microsoft in 1988.
Would Microsoft have adapted BSD NET/1 as Apple eventually did, instead of continuing OS/2?
8 months ago
What is interesting to consider is if Dave Cutler had not been available or otherwise did not choose Microsoft in 1988.
Would Microsoft have adapted BSD NET/1 as Apple eventually did, instead of continuing OS/2?
What's interesting is that Cutler said in an interview that initially he talked to Gates but wasn't interested until Ballmer swayed him in.
with a few minutes of pretext: https://youtu.be/xi1Lq79mLeE?t=3224