On Sunday 19 November 2006 12:14, Doug McGarrett wrote: > 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.
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.) -- JAY VOLLMER [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK - IGNORE FULLWISE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
