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The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 11:09 Steve Ballmer Gary Kildall, Digital Research was the name of the company.
- ▶ 14:53 Steve Ballmer They know that was digital research's business.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 30:23 David Rosenthal We're gonna bring up Gary and his company, Digital Research, a little bit later.
- ▶ 1:38:08 David Rosenthal Now, there was one off-the-shelf operating system out there from a company called Digital Research, which was run by Gary Kildall, who I think, as we talked about earlier, Bill and Paul had actually intersected with back in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:38:33 David Rosenthal And so yeah, whenever anybody needed one off the shelf, Bill and Microsoft would just refer people over to digital to get it.
- ▶ 1:39:54 David Rosenthal Go talk to digital research.
- ▶ 1:40:14 David Rosenthal IBM, that team from Project Chess, flies down, I think directly from Seattle, and talking with Bill and Steve, to Monterey, California, where Digital Research is based at this point, to meet with Gary and his wife Dorothy, who run the…
- ▶ 1:41:25 David Rosenthal There's a lawyer from Digital Research who gets involved, and he doesn't really understand what's going on.
- ▶ 1:41:35 David Rosenthal With the belief that Gary and Digital Research aren't up for working with them, and like, aren't capable of producing here.
- ▶ 1:44:32 David Rosenthal So they had been going to Kildall and Digital Research, too, and badgering them to, like, hey, write the sixteen-bit version of CPM, and Gary just didn't.
- ▶ 1:56:09 David Rosenthal By this point in time, Gary and Digital Research have gotten their act together.
- ▶ 1:56:12 David Rosenthal They've written a sixteen-bit version of the CPM operating system.