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Re: [opensuse] Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:01:30 -0500
- Message-id: <45611A8A.80008@xxxxxxxxxx>
Jay C Vollmer wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone was going to point this out. What Billy did do
> was develop the 4K BASIC interpreter which was used on many popular micros
> at the time (Commodore,Tandy,Atari,etc.)
>
>
And we should also point out that he developed Altair BASIC on Harvard
computers, even though those computers were not supposed to be used for
commercial purposes. Also BG, who also accused others of stealing a
tape of BASIC, made a habit of dumpster diving, to "borrow" code from
others. Once he had one BASIC it wasn't a lot more work to port it to
different systems.
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> I was wondering if anyone was going to point this out. What Billy did do
> was develop the 4K BASIC interpreter which was used on many popular micros
> at the time (Commodore,Tandy,Atari,etc.)
>
>
And we should also point out that he developed Altair BASIC on Harvard
computers, even though those computers were not supposed to be used for
commercial purposes. Also BG, who also accused others of stealing a
tape of BASIC, made a habit of dumpster diving, to "borrow" code from
others. Once he had one BASIC it wasn't a lot more work to port it to
different systems.
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