Any DRI employees out there???

From: Chandra Bajpai <cbajpai_at_attbi.com>
Date: Fri Jul 12 22:35:00 2002

I could put you in touch with a guy I used to work with Bill O'Connell.
He was the VP of Sales for SystemSoft when I worked with him. I
remember him telling me about Gary Kildall (personal stuff, an account
of the IBM NDA issue etc.). I believe he was trying to sell DRI GEM to
Leading Edge (clone mfg) where I was working....I was very impressed
with GEM compared to Windows 1.0. Comparing the two was my first
project back in 1985. He left DRI to go to Phoenix Technologies.

-Chandra


-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Curt Vendel
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 1:46 PM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Any DRI employees out there???

I'm looking for anyone that worked at Digital Research in 83-85 that may
have been part of the "Monterey Group" that ported GEM over to the Atari
ST
computers?

I'm also looking for anyone from DRI that accompanied Gary Kildall up to
Grass Valley, CA. to Cyan Engineering's labs. They were owned by Atari
under Warner Comm. From what I've been told Gary Kildall and a group
of
DRI engineers travelled up to Grass Valley to disconnect and remove the
VAX
11/730 or 750, not sure which. It was payment from Atari to DRI for the
GEM
porting work. I've gotten one person's account, but I need to confirm
this
with a 2nd witness before I can publish this onto the atarimuseum.com
website as fact, thanks.



Curt
Received on Fri Jul 12 2002 - 22:35:00 BST