198 1 year, digital research company's income is 6 million dollars, and kildare's personal wealth150,000 dollars. In contrast, Microsoft and Gates at that time were still small shrimps. However, Microsoft's BASIC was later embedded in IBM PC system, and Microsoft's DOS was tightly bound by IBM. 1982, kildare was not really defeated. He believes that as a product, BASIC is a disaster. He is right to a great extent. BASIC is not an easy language for beginners. As a master programmer, kildare wants to develop a simpler and better visual language than BASIC, that is, DR LOGO. Unfortunately, this product, which has poured a lot of wealth and money, has never really caught on. Because at this time, people no longer care so much about programming languages. The focus of the market began to favor application software.

Kildare is a technical person. He thinks that if you develop a set of key application software on your own operating system (which is easy for kildare), it is immoral and heartless to compete with your own customers. Therefore, he decided not to compete directly with software companies such as WordStar and VisiCalc. These softwares all depend on his operating system. In this way, kildare's business is too single and dangerous.

Gates, on the other hand, doesn't feel guilty. On the contrary, he believes that in the field of application software, we must be ruthless and unscrupulous. From the beginning, he set out to deploy, laying a solid foundation for a series of profitable application software, which can run on various platforms, including kildare's operating system. In this way, with a solid business foundation, we can be more savage in the market. Moreover, Gates also got another big revelation: it is too easy to find innovative products and technologies in the software industry, and imitation is too simple. But turning them into market success requires another ability and means. And all this means that kildare will never learn. This is the fundamental reason why Microsoft without innovation can sweep the world, while kildare, a generation of software genius, can only decline rapidly.

From the astrology machine to the missed opportunity of CP/M, and finally to the software pricing, kildare will never be a person in a shopping mall. It can be said that kildare is the first all-round expert in computer history, and he has made extraordinary contributions in both hardware and software. In particular, he prepared the operating system before the earliest personal computer Altair, which created conditions for the eruption of the PC industry. But he is just a relatively simple technical genius, destined to be trampled on by Gates.