Internet History Podcast
Internet History Podcast
Brian McCullough
100. The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates? The Gary Kildall Story
1 hour 38 minutes Posted Mar 13, 2016 at 2:09 pm.
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Summary
To celebrate our 100th episode, we’re taking a special look at one of the foundational legends of the technology industry. It’s about the man who invented the modern disc operating system (the OS) and the concept of the software platform. That man was Gary Kildall. And the question we examine in this episode is, why is Bill Gates the richest man in the world, and not Gary Kildall? Could things have turned out differently?
In this episode we use audio from the following documentaries:
Triumph of the Nerds
and
Computer Chronicles
Special thanks to Justin Schwinghamer for the original score and the voice acting.  

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