| From: | G.A.Griggs |
| Date: | 6 Aug 2000 at 00:45:01 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga is #7 |
Hello Chris
On 04-Aug-00, you wrote:
>
> Woah there! Take a few deep breaths. They DO mention that before the
> Altair there was the French "Micral", and they say that: "Bill Gates, with
> Paul Allen, cobbled together the BASIC programming language and dropped
> out of college to parlay it into an empire." Cobbled together. He didn't
> invent it, that's sure (was he even alive when it was conceived at a
> University?) but he did play a big part in bringing it to the masses.
>
> ...and before you start stamping your feet and sulking, it's an article
> on the history of the "PC", not computers in general.
>
Hate to disagree mate but m$ is newbie in my book. most ppl where introduced
to BASIC long before m$ Bulldozed their way on to the scene. In fact IMHO
most ppl who have been introduced to BASIC have beem introduced to a very
slipshod interpretation of the language,I have yet to see a decent BASIC on
any 16 or 32 bit micro.
Regards
I like work ... I can sit and watch it for hours.
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