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| Noah Wyle | ... | ||
| Joey Slotnick | ... | ||
| J.G. Hertzler | ... | ||
| Anthony Michael Hall | ... | ||
| Wayne Pére | ... | ||
| Sheila Shaw | ... |
Mrs. Wozniak
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Gema Zamprogna | ... | |
| John DiMaggio | ... | ||
| Josh Hopkins | ... | ||
| Gailard Sartain | ... |
Ed Roberts
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Allan Kolman | ... |
Therapist
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Richard Waltzer | ... |
Homebrew Tech
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Harris Mann | ... |
Longhair #1
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| Clay Wilcox | ... |
Longhair #2
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| Marcus Giamatti | ... | ||
This is a semi-humorous biographical film about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Corporation and Microsoft Inc. Written by Flotis
This movie was fun. It caught the flavor of the two companies, Apple and Microsoft. Unfortunately, it missed many facts that would have enhanced the film further. For instance, IBM initially looked at Microsoft ONLY for programming languages. Digital Research was the preeminent operating system company. However, after Gary Kildall blew off two meetings with IBM, Gates saw an opening and took it. The QDOS MS then purchased and evolved into MS-DOS, was actually pirated code from Digital, specifically the code for CP/M-86. Had Gary Kildall made one call to the FBI and another to his lawyer, Gates would just be getting out of a halfway house about now. I learned most of this from a close friend, Gordon Eubanks. Gordon was Kildall's right-hand and head of his languages division after meeting Kildall at the US Navy Post-Graduate School in Monterey.
Had Kildall made those calls, how different the PC world would look... Microsoft would probably not exist, Digital Research would have licensed CP/M86 to IBM, allowing such things as 16MB of directly addressable memory in the very first PC's, something not available until many years later. We would be GEM based, not Windows based. WordStar, Ashton Tate and Lotus would still probably be the major application suppliers.
How much more ineresting would this movie had been with the facts, which are much better than anything a Hollywood writer could create.