BUZZING· 77%1h 50m·2025-08-29·Technology#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories
Dave Plummer is a programmer, former Microsoft software engineer (Windows 95, NT, XP), creator of Task Manager, author of two books on autism, and host of the Dave’s Garage YouTube channel, where he shares stories from his career, insights on software development, and deep dives into technology. Thank you for…
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“Great discussion! I joined Microsoft in June 1985 and I was working on MS-DOS 6.x when I hired Dave as a summer intern in 1993. He got an incredible amount of work done that summer, and I was bragging to Bill Gates about him at that summer…”
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