MICROS~1's ten programmers (was: "Piracy" (was: Unauthorize

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Sun Jan 19 15:15:27 2003

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, chris wrote:
> 2: His parting line in the letter:
> "Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers
> and deluge the hobby market with good software ".
> I just have to laugh when I read that. Well, he got the deluge part
> right. :-)

Microsoft's tenth hire was Bob Wallace. He left Microsoft about 1982 and
started Quicksoft ("PC-Write"). He said that he wanted "to make a living,
not a killing". He was the first to leave Microsoft with stock. He died
in September 2002.
Received on Sun Jan 19 2003 - 15:15:27 GMT