On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 2:51 PM David Szasz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Interesting discussion, but it's all a little like saying which came first > "chicken or the egg." Without BASIC the model 100 would have no charm at > all. > > BTW: I see from the auction link for the Bill Gates Model 100 that it sold > for around $30K. That reminds me of many Ebay auction prices I've seen! > >> >> And it's an interesting BASIC, tailored for the laptop, with decent interfaces/abstractions for all parts of the system even including the UART, power management, real time clock, initial program load, interrupts, in-memory file system, etc. Microsoft clearly put a lot of thought into it. -- John.
