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Article #57938Re: Netscape - Linux - Microsoft
From: Paul Wyborn
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 00:00
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grep@cris.com (George Bonser) writes:
>Microsoft wrote a large portion of the original Mac software, helped
>with a lot of other Apple software too. Didn't they kind of "take
>over" CP/M toward the end too? I also think, but am not positive that
>Microsquish also had a hand in the early Commodore software too.
As far as I knew they wrote Mircrosoft Basic from about 1975 for a number
of the earlier PCs.
>--
>George Bonser -- grep@cris.com
>Shaws Principle:
>Build a system that even a fool can use, and only fools will want to use it.
>(Verified by Microsoft)
--
Paul Wyborn In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,6a90325fdc078ce5 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: cs308340@student.uq.edu.au (Paul Wyborn) Subject: Re: Netscape - Linux - Microsoft Date: 1996/08/08 Message-ID: <4udm2l$r5u@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au> X-Deja-AN: 173112229 references: <31F49A40.284A84B8@redback.co.rmit.edu.au> <4t7kak$b2u@ustsu10.ust.hk> <3202B301.68F48CFC@senet.com.au> <DvpJty.C05@oriole.sbay.org> <4u8lfh$8o2@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au> <Dvs7yx.815@oriole.sbay.org> organization: University of Queensland newsgroups: aus.computers.linux