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EXCLUSIVE RELEASE - Gary Kildall: The Man that should have been Bill Gates
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EXCLUSIVE RELEASE - Gary Kildall: The Man that should have been Bill Gates

Months in the making - here's your exclusive documentary release!

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Sep 04, 2023
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This documentary has taken literally months to create, and thanks to you Substack / Patreon fans, you've made it possible. Here is the exclusive access to your ad-free, full-length version of this video with a run time of 1 hrs 30! YouTube viewers will get a cut-up series of videos in due course, but here is the "directors cut" for you lucky Substack members!

Synopsis: Gary Kildall was the first to create Microcomputer Operating Systems, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and one of the first to create a Graphical User Interface based Desktop operating environment amongst many more incredibly important innovations. He was arguably at least ten years ahead of his time, and yet, despite all of these accomplishments, many have never heard of him. This is the story of Gary Kildall, his wife Dorothy and their company, Digital Research Incorporated.

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