Just finished reading Paul Allen's memoir "Idea Man" @paulgallen

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A peek into the mind of Microsoft co-founder. Great read and, for me, a long overdue revisit of a time when entire operating systems took up less than 20KB and BIOS software written in raw binary had to be "toggled" into central processing units (CPUs) before the machines could be used.

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