Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: hanc...
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:03

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On Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 5:11:01 PM UTC-4, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

> > Nice program.  I particularly like the way they briefly mention
> > Bill Gates only to point out that they were there first.
> 
> The first to commercialize on BASIC. Without BASIC and the MITS 8800
> there might not be a Microsoft company today. Would be interesting to
> know if CP/M then would have lead the market well into the 1990s and
> beyond with GEM becoming the GUI of choice and Gary if Kildall would
> still be alive, not going to this bar and had this fight leading to his
> death...


I believe Gates and his friends were doing commercial work before
they did the BASIC compiler.  So, I strongly suspect Gates still
would have developed a major software company.

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