RE: Bill Gate$.

QBASIC was lot further down the line as I understand it. Eric is talking
about the first basic for the 8-bit Altair(I believe that was the machine
name). Product was actually built on a emulator running on a DEC PDP
machine. When no one else had anything (No machine to write on), Gates was
ready with a product when the product shipped.  

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From: email@james-w-kilgore.com [mailto:email@james-w-kilgore.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 11:29 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Bill Gate$.


Eric,

Up here, in the Northwest, the story is that Bill and Co. bought QBasic.

eric.delong@pmsi-services.com wrote:
> 
>      Well, strictly speaking, Bill and Co. did in fact write their first
>      product. Microsoft Basic for all of the homebrew PCs back in the dark
>      ages. While it was not really a "new" product in terms of function,
>      they did make it to support a market that had nothing else to work
>      with (sounds familiar, huh? <g>)
>
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