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Wow. The same Gary Kildall who was first approached by IBM for a PC operating system[a] helped write Pixar's first 3-D renderer.

At a minimum, Kildall's Wikipedia page should be updated with his contribution to Pixar!

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[a] Bill Gates was IBM's second choice, because at the time Microsoft didn't have a PC OS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall#IBM_dealings

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Interesting how he was also born in seattle. Seems like how a lot of pioneers of the PC are from there.

Maybe there was something on the water they drank as kids? (I'm joking, in case it's not obvious!)

It’s weird because there are several hotspots like that: Seattle, SLC, Akron, and so on. Each one pumps out greatness for a time, and then things move again.

It works internationally too. eg. von Neumann, Teller, Wigner etc. All Hungarians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)

But they came from Mars obviously

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