Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s

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From: Rich Alderson
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:31

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usenet@only.tnx (Questor) writes:

> On 20 Jul 2018 16:42:12 -0400, Rich Alderson <ne...@alderson.users.panix.com>
> wrote:

>> Well, we know that their first was a KS-10 delivered in late December 1978
>> or early January 1979...

> That wasn't an ADP Onsite system, was it?  (grin)

Nope.  It was a straight purchase from DEC.

> I thought part of Microsoft's very early shady past was that Bill and Paul
> used Harvard's PDP-10 to develop their microcomputer BASIC product,
> contravening University guidelines regarding commercial use of their systems
> by students.

Well, the original code was written on the Harvard machine, yes.  After they
moved to Albuquerque, they leased time on a PDP-10 at one of the local school
districts.  That was their development platform until they moved Micro-soft to
Seattle, by which time they felt the need and could afford to own their own
development systems.

Microsoft used to recruit very heavily among Stanford students who used the
LOTS TOPS-20 systems, especially those who had taken Ralph Gorin's course on
assembly language programming on the system.  (Ralph literally wrote the book.)

-- 
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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