Microsoft Volume I

5876.946 - 5903.307 Ben Gilbert

And in the 8-bit generation, most, if not all, hardware providers of microcomputers just wrote their own operating systems. It just wasn't a big deal. Now, there was one off-the-shelf operating system out there from a company called Digital Research, which was run by Gary Kildall, who I think, as we talked about earlier, Bill and Paul had actually intersected with back in Seattle.