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Some article i came across that discuss Bill's before M$ [1]— Preceding unsigned comment added by Wk muriithi ( talk • contribs) 17:48, 16 February 2005 (UTC)
I have made some change but I don't have the time and the skill, good work. Mbios 17:08, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
[2] I don't know whether somebody copied the text from there, or whether the site copied from wikipedia. What should we do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gogodidi ( talk • contribs) 15:04, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
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help)Several rather poor sources asy that the ownership of Traf-O-Data was:
...may explain this. Snori ( talk) 08:49, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
It took Gates, Allen, and Gilbert almost a year to get the traffic-analysis machine running. When they finally did, in 1972 !? they started a company called Traf-O-Data..." The authors seem to have missed the fact that 1972 is the year the 8008 was released, so they couldn't have been working for a year on a machine that used a chip which had yet to be released. Allen didn't have a workable 8008 simulator until summer 1973, and they didn't pitch the product to city engineers until summer 1974. These aren't the only details these authors have flubbed. Maybe they can release a fourth edition of their book that finally fixes this? wbm1058 ( talk) 17:26, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
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This claim seems rather dubious to me - the timing is wrong (CP/M wasn't written until 1974, which is rather late for a company operating between 1972 and 1975 to have used it on their only development project, and to my understanding was not commercially available until 1976), the details don't match (as described in the article, Traf-O-Data's system was based on an 8008 processor, but CP/M didn't run on that architecture, but rather on the 8080), and the source is a self-published youtube video that repeats the story that IBM didn't buy CP/M because Kildall failed to turn up to a meeting, which is [probably not true]( https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1997/0707/6001336a.html). 176.35.207.239 ( talk) 04:57, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
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Some article i came across that discuss Bill's before M$ [1]— Preceding unsigned comment added by Wk muriithi ( talk • contribs) 17:48, 16 February 2005 (UTC)
I have made some change but I don't have the time and the skill, good work. Mbios 17:08, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
[2] I don't know whether somebody copied the text from there, or whether the site copied from wikipedia. What should we do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gogodidi ( talk • contribs) 15:04, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
{{
cite book}}
: |pages=
has extra text (
help)Several rather poor sources asy that the ownership of Traf-O-Data was:
...may explain this. Snori ( talk) 08:49, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
It took Gates, Allen, and Gilbert almost a year to get the traffic-analysis machine running. When they finally did, in 1972 !? they started a company called Traf-O-Data..." The authors seem to have missed the fact that 1972 is the year the 8008 was released, so they couldn't have been working for a year on a machine that used a chip which had yet to be released. Allen didn't have a workable 8008 simulator until summer 1973, and they didn't pitch the product to city engineers until summer 1974. These aren't the only details these authors have flubbed. Maybe they can release a fourth edition of their book that finally fixes this? wbm1058 ( talk) 17:26, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
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I've removed the following from the article:
This claim seems rather dubious to me - the timing is wrong (CP/M wasn't written until 1974, which is rather late for a company operating between 1972 and 1975 to have used it on their only development project, and to my understanding was not commercially available until 1976), the details don't match (as described in the article, Traf-O-Data's system was based on an 8008 processor, but CP/M didn't run on that architecture, but rather on the 8080), and the source is a self-published youtube video that repeats the story that IBM didn't buy CP/M because Kildall failed to turn up to a meeting, which is [probably not true]( https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1997/0707/6001336a.html). 176.35.207.239 ( talk) 04:57, 24 July 2020 (UTC)