Bill Gates' successor, Steve Ballmer, was quoted as saying at the Microsoft's farewell to Gates: "Bill was really there at the birth of the modern personal computer. Bill really designed the IBM PC."
Gripe Line's Ed Foster isn't going to let such PC revisionist history slide, pointing out that honor belongs to the late Don Estridge of IBM. "As talented as Gates is," Foster writes, "he might very well have played an important role anyway, but without Estridge it's unlikely Microsoft would have even gotten into the OS business."
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