Gary Kildall could have been in Bill Gates' place today
From Nightfox@eric.oulashin@gmail.com to All on Sun Mar 29 09:51:21 2015
As we all know, Microsoft was the company that made the deal to license an operating system to IBM, and the rest is history. But before IBM contacted Microsoft, IBM first went to DRI for an operating system but failed to make a deal because DRI's CEO, Gary Kildall, was absent that day: http://bit.ly/1IHX4xc