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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: 2) by edIII on Tuesday October 16 2018, @10:33PM
You mention "greatest thing ever". That reminded me of something I saw like 20 years ago at least. Was visiting this super geek and checking out his pad while he helped me with my issue. He had a ton of really cool stuff that you could basically only get by stealing it at Comdex. In his case, companies gave him problematic equipment to figure out their firmware bugs. He got to keep a lot of the equipment including a wireless bridge setup that could do 30 miles. This was 20 years ago, and walking into the coolest room you'd ever see.
By far the coolest thing I saw that blew my mind away (keeping in mind this was before multi-monitor was mainstream), were 6 monitors in a row. One Apple, a few PCs, something I didn't recognize, than three different systems playing something like EverCrack. One of them wasn't even playing the game, but showing positions of players in real time via a protocol hack. The two players were grinding.
He took the mouse on the Apple machine and moved it across all the monitors to start messing with the RPG game he was playing. Moved smoothly across all the different machines, and it occurred to me that he only had one keyboard and mouse, but was controlling a ton of machines in the room. All without a KVM switch of any kind.
That was pretty much the coolest thing I've seen, and was totally unexpected.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.