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From: jacka@aspen.IAG.HP.COM (Jack C. Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM PC prehistory (was Japanese Josephson breakthrough?)
Message-ID: <1360001@aspen.IAG.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 90 21:12:28 GMT
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>Also, is that story about Gary Kildal
>blowing off a meeting with the IBMers to go flying true?

No.  However, it is true that he failed to ask how high (on the way up) when
IBM asked him to jump.  Meanwhile, in Seattle, P.T. Gates did just that, 
making a deal for someone else's software.  The whole truth is a little
more complicated, but not much.