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Article #57944Re: Netscape - Linux - Microsoft
From: Dimitri Maziuk
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 00:00
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Paul Wyborn wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Yep, they started with a Basic interpreter. My understandig is, they
put their money on microcomputers when serious people believed micros
are only good for driving microvawe ovens and stuff like that. Then
micros boomed...
--
Dimitri
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