On Monday, 1 September 2014 at 21:35:04 UTC, Russel Winder via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 21:01 +0000, Chris via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
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Being on holiday at a crucial moment is dangerous, do you
remember how Bill Gates got his first big job that started it
all? :-)
Bill Gates' mother told the then IBM CEO to hire Microsoft?
Well, legend has it that he got the deal, because the DOS guy was
on holidays. But your version is probably closer to the truth ;)
I don't know how much truth is in the Wiki entry about this whole
issue.
