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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (17562)	2/19/1998 4:52:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

slate.com One of the Valley's classic stories is the saga of Gary Kildall. It has appeared in at least two books; one television series; and many, many conversations between Valley people and journalists. When IBM asked Bill Gates for a PC operating system back in the early 1980s, Gates sent them to Kildall. Kildall had already invented the operating system that should have been used in the IBM PC. But some combination of indifference and commercial ineptitude led Kildall to ignore the men from IBM, who wound up returning to Gates. Gates, in turn, purchased a cheap rip-off of Kildall's system, which he dubbed MS-DOS. Gates thus became Gates. Kildall died from head injuries suffered from a fall in a bar. No, this article must be wrong because, according to Reg, Gates understood, even back then, that domination of the world of computing would require building a dominant OS that would lead to economies of scale, network externalities, etc.