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Article #1040Re: Unpopular argument: Sending tech jobs abroad is good
From: John R Pierce
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 01:53
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 01:53
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On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 00:10:10 GMT, "David Fabian" <david.m.fabian@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >"Tom_O" <tom_overton_1968@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:b4d9ceca.0402051522.6bf0936c@posting.google.com... >> yf@ziplip.com (Your Friend) wrote in message news:<be064478.0402050829.5fce17bf@posting.google.com>... >> >> Bill Gates(who himself is a programmer) > >You are too kind ... what programming did Bill Gates ever do >(besides a few funky programs in high school)? > BasicA for the 8080 etc. APL (never released, but he worked on it off and on for years) IBMbasic and GWBasic for PCDOS/MSDOS I'm not absolutely sure, but I'm pretty sure he was in the trenches with the programmers during the PCDOS 1.0 -> MSDOS 2.x transition. He was still taking a very active role in software management during the early versions of Windows (1.x, 2.x)...
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