My dad's resume and skills from 1980

Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 by tomcam on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @06:34PM (#33337060)

I worked at Microsoft in the late 90s and methodically went around to all of them, from the creator of MS-DOS to the creator of Turbo Pascal/C#/Typescript, and asked them all the questions that I couldn't find in the computer history books.

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Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 by robterrell on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @06:52PM (#33337275)

Would love to read these if you've collected them somewhere.

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Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 by tomcam on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:57PM (#33339274)

Never really wrote about it!

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Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @06:54PM (#33337294)

Where can we read it?

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Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 by tomcam on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:59PM (#33339287)

I didn’t take notes or anything and many of my questions were very specific. For example, how did Turbo Pascal do error handling (easily, because it was a handwritten recursive descent compiler), or did Tim Paterson, who sold DOS to Bill Gates for $50,000, ever regret it (no).

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