“And that’s what this guy said, one day he said, “I want you to see what Microsoft is doing.”” 1

“And he took me to a technical pitch meeting somewhere in Silicon Valley, and there was Steve Ballmer up on the stage, and they were talking about Microsoft Windows.” 2

“And they were saying that they were going to do really impressive stuff with this graphical multitasking system, and which did not impress me at all. Okay? ’Cause I had my own, and I wasn’t that impressed with theirs.” 3

“But there were some things that I couldn’t do because I didn’t have access to the deep guts of the operating system. And there were things that I wanted, which were interprocess communication, dynamic relocation, and dynamic load ability.” 4

“This is the argument that I had for a year-and-a-half at Digital Research, all the systems guys there would come to me and say, “Alan, you’re the applications guy, what is it you want?” And I’d say, “I want dynamic relocation.”” 5