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Yet Another Famous Nerd (cont)

William H. Gates III

   

  • Chief Software Architect, Microsoft

  • World's richest man ($80b)

  • Contributions to Computing:

    • Basic? ... (existed in mid-60's)

    • MS-DOS? ... (from Tim Paterson)

    • Windows? ... (from Apple)

    • Explorer? ... (from Spyglass)

    • the Internet? ... (hah! he wishes)