At 11:16 PM 11/18/2006 -0600, M Harris wrote: >Content-Disposition: inline > >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. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
