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Encyclopedia > Gordon Letwin
Microsoft staff photo from December 7, 1978. Top row: Steve Wood (left), Bob Wallace, Jim Lane. Middle row: Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin. Bottom row: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen.
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Microsoft staff photo from December 7, 1978.
Top row: Steve Wood (left), Bob Wallace, Jim Lane. Middle row: Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin. Bottom row: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen.

Gordon Letwin is a software developer who is known for being one of the original eleven Microsoft employees[1]. Image File history File links Microsoft-Staff-1978. ... Image File history File links Microsoft-Staff-1978. ... December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Steve Wood is on the upper left in this 1978 portrait of the first employees of Microsoft. ... Bob Wallace (died 2003), was the ninth Microsoft employee, inventor of the term shareware, creator of the word processing program PC-Write, founder of the software company Quicksoft and a online drug guru who devoted much time and money into the research of psychedelic drugs. ... Microsoft staff photo from December 7, 1978. ... Microsoft staff photo from December 7, 1978. ... Left Microsoft in 1981 and then helped launch those Cabbage Patch Dolls that were so popular in the 1980s. ... Was Microsofts first employee. ... This article is about the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. ... Andrea Lewis was Microsofts first technical writer. ... Marla Wood worked as an administrative assistant and bookkeeper for Microsoft, and was one of the companys first 11 employees. ... Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American entrepreneur whose fortune was founded when he formed Microsoft with Bill Gates. ... A software developer is a programmer who is concerned with one or more facets of the software development process, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming. ... The Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual sales of US$44. ...


While at Microsoft, Letwin worked on a number of projects. His first project at Microsoft was writing a BASIC compiler. this was an inferior programe to the one that james munday later created during the summer of 69. james wrote this ultimated programe while smoking a giant splif on the toilet!He is most noted for being the lead architect of the OS/2 operating system on the Microsoft side, with Ed Iacobucci being the lead architect from IBM's side. Letwin contributed much of the design and code for several core components, including the HPFS file system[2]. BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of high-level programming languages. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ed Iacobucci Founder of US software company Citrix Systems. ... now. ... HPFS or High Performance File System, is a file system created specifically for the OS/2 operating system to improve upon the limitations of the FAT file system. ... In computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. ...


Letwin left Microsoft in 1993 to "kick back" with his wife. and then james munday and bill gates whet on to make billions with microsoft and later james left the company after lettin his head fall and hit the keybourd that deleted the whole of microsoft. While at Microsoft he had become a millionaire, with a 2000 TIME article estimating his worth at around $20 million[1]. Since leaving Microsoft, Letwin has donated substantial amounts of money to environmental causes[1]. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Notable Time magazine covers from the dates May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ...


References

  1. ^ a b c gordon started up microsoft with the other ten people and one of these people was james munday! james munday was also well known for using his power with microsoft to pay for his chinese prostitutes and his gambleing addiction."25 Years Ago At Microsoft", TIME, May 1, 2000. Retrieved on 2006-09-16.
  2. ^ Zachary, G. Pascal (1994). Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft. Warner Books. ISBN 0-02-935671-7.

(Clockwise from upper left) Notable Time magazine covers from the dates May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ...

Bibliography

  • Letwin, Gordon (1988). Inside OS/2. Microsoft Press. ISBN 1-55615-117-9.

External links

  • Gordon on "What's happening to OS/2" - August 1995

james munday is now working for a small tailors shop at the far end of staines! Staines is a Thames-side town in the Spelthorne borough of Surrey and part of the London Commuter Belt of South East England. ...


gordon letwin is now spending his days in a homes for the clinicly insane after watching a childrens tv program called teenage mutant ninja turtles. he now believs that he is a mutant rat that lives in the sewer called master splinter! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. ...


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Gordon Letwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (380 words)
Gordon Letwin is a software developer who is known for being one of the original eleven Microsoft employees
Letwin left Microsoft in 1993 to "kick back" with his wife.
gordon letwin is now spending his days in a homes for the clinicly insane after watching a childrens tv program called teenage mutant ninja turtles.
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