On Saturday 17 June 2006 04:25 pm, Philip Tellis wrote: > Sometime Today, j cobbled together some glyphs to say: > > There was one other (cant remeber his name or the web links) who > > did all the coding for the first product MS Basic written in > > assembly. > > Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote the code for Altair Basic for the > MITS Altair 8800. > Monte Davidoff wrote the floating point > arithmetic routines. Allen and Gates competed with writing a boot > loader. The final code ran in 4KB of memory. > > That's how good these guys were.
Yep. With kludges that jumped to the middle of a mutibyte instructions. Heshould start his coders coding in 4KB again - things might actually improve . -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
