FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF THE DIGITAL AGE
FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF THE DIGITAL AGE
How Gary Kildall and Xerox PARC Helped Build the Technology Microsoft and Apple Became Famous For
The history of personal computing is often reduced to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Microsoft, and Apple. That version leaves out the people whose work created many of the foundations those companies later commercialized.
Two of the most important examples are Gary Kildall's CP/M operating system and the groundbreaking graphical-computing research conducted at Xerox PARC.
The story is not that Microsoft and Apple contributed nothing. They did. Their enormous success came from taking existing technologies, adapting them, improving them, commercializing them, and ultimately controlling the markets built around them.
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