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Paul Allen has died at age 65:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/15/paul-allen-co-founder-microsoft-dies
Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died. He was 65.
Allen's company Vulcan said in a statement that he died Monday. Earlier this month Allen said the cancer he was treated for in 2009, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, had returned.
Allen, who was an avid sports fan, owned the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks.
Of course the article has more information. There was more to Paul Allen that just mentioned above. Bound to hit multiple sources with different takes so be on the lookout for something from a source you like.
takyon: Allen Institute bio and Vulcan Inc. statement.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by canopic jug on Tuesday October 16 2018, @03:57PM
And Trumpet Winsock [thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com] - it was Win3.11 with a US Robotics modem and Trumpet that got me to sunsite.unc.edu and/or ftp.funet.fi for the earliest linux floppies. Sometime in 1995 if my memory still serves.
He had to be forced / tricked into shipping with a TCP/IP stack by his underlings. He was against it. If you can find the story it is interesting. Furthermore, though it has also mostly been erased from the WWW, Bill Gates was calling the Internet a passing fad [wired.com] as late as the second half of the 1990's.
Back to OS/2, the reason that could not take off was because Bill had promised IBM to develop applications for it. IBM and M$ had been partners in developing OS/2 but M$ would stand for the lion's share of initial applications. However, weeks before launch, Bill let IBM know that 1) M$ would not be delivering any OS/2 applications, and 2) M$ had been using the time and resources that would have gone to OS/2 for developing Windows-only applications. There was no time for IBM to pick up the mess before launch. Also M$ ran a successful vaporware campaign with the help of the trade press getting most of the market to "wait and see" what Windows would become. That dragged on for a few years before M$ delivered even half-baked product and people had gotten used to not buying OS/2 by then.
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