Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Rich Alderson
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 20:11

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hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com writes:

> In my humble opinion, given Gates' passionate use of computers in
> high school, I believe they would've simply gone into some other
> programming project had BASIC not come along.  I believe even in
> high school Gates was doing some commercial work (using his schools'
> computers.)

Nope.  However, the summer that Gates and Allen and 3 of their friend from high
school worked for RODS, he spent a lot of time writing a class scheduling
program which would put him into classes with a high proportion of girls (as
the upcoming year would be the first when the Lakeside School was co-ed).

"Commercial work on school computers" describes the use of the Harvard PDP-10
to create their BASIC interpreter for the Altair...

-- 
Rich Alderson					  ne...@alderson.users.panix.com
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	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
									--Galen

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