Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by wallace Erickson

Author:wallace, Erickson [wallace, Erickson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-09T17:53:35+00:00

20,000 lines of code, compared to about 4,000 lines for the first version of the operating system.

The PC/XT was officially announced by IBM in New York City in March of 1983. Priced at $4,995, it featured a 10-megabyte hard disk as well as a 360K floppy disk drive. The computer also had 128K of random access memory, or twice as much as the original PC.

Joe Sarubbi, who had been put in charge of the IBM XT team in Boca Raton, worked closely with Gates and Microsoft on the project for much of 1982. “Bill was arrogant but technically astute,” said Sarubbi, now retired and living in Florida. “He liked to test your technical knowledge. He also would take exception to me because I was kind of hard on his team about making the fixes. He would say, ‘Well, I’m going to be with Don Estridge on Friday,’ and I’d say, ‘Bill, I don’t give a shit who you are going to be with or where you are going to be. I’m the program manager and you are going to get the job done through me or you are not going to get it done at all.’ ” More than 500 fixes had to be made in DOS 2.0 before it was ready to work on the PC/XT.

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