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Article #623675Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 21:09
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 11:03:38 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: > > 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. Gates and Allen previously were involved in traffic analysis for cars. They had a company "Trafo-Data", Google for it. Once Allan discovered the Popular Electronics issue about the MITS 8800 they offered to produce an "operating system" including BASIC. And that kicked off Microsoft's success. -- Andreas My random toughts and comments https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/
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