On Sunday 19 November 2006 15:49, Jay C Vollmer wrote:
On Sunday 19 November 2006 12:14, Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 11:16 PM 11/18/2006 -0600, M Harris wrote:
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On Saturday 18 November 2006 06:37, James Knott wrote:
Well, I bought my first computer (an IMSAI 8080 in 1976 and when the PC first came out, many considered a step backwards from what 8 bit
CP/M
systems were capable of. For example, back then, there was even an multiuser version called MP/M.
CP/M 80 .... remember it well... isn't it amazing how much the first
M$DOS
looked and behaved like CP/M...? (thief)
And then there was BASIC... basically stolen also... Billy Gates
inventing
BASIC is almost as laughable as ALGORE inventing the internet... now that
I
think of it... BASIC is the *only* program Billy ever "wrote".... hmmm.
-- Kind regards,
M Harris <>< --
I was writing BASIC programs in the latter 1960's, when Billy was probably in Kindergarten. They ran on a mainframe somewhere in Texas, over an acoustic phone modem.
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.)
Yeah, I wasn't aware of anyone stating he "developed" BASIC. He developed the interpretors, which most of us used on our Apple II, Atari 400, TRS-80, TI/99 or Commodore systems. I remember a story he gave about developing a game for the IBM PC where he was locked up in his cleaning closet at the Albuquerque office working all night for several nights to finish it. He said it was the last time he wanted to code. -- kai www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org