shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>  First of all sorry for cross-posting the same query on so many lists.

So don't do that then. It irritates people and gets you bad karma.

>  I read somewhere couple of days ago that Bill Gates actually got his
> source-code from some trash-bin

It's distorted in the telling.

> I don't remember the website [snip excuses]

I posted about it on this mailing list too a while ago, I think.

"I'd skip out on athletics and go down to this computer center. We were moving
ahead very rapidly: Basic, FORTRAN, LISP, PDP-10 machine language, digging out
the operating system listings from the trash and studying those."

 - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/06/29/bill_gates_roots/

PJ



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