Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium...

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From: Philip Machanick
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 13:43

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In article <jd-wong-0509950318330001@antwerp-1.slip.uiuc.edu>,
jd-wong@uiuc.edu (Jim Wong) wrote:

> Bill Gates shot down the airplane owned by the author of CP/M using a gun
> he borrowed from an employee of the Seattle Computer Company.  He then
> stole the BASIC source code from a locked compartment in the cockpit and,
> so he could use  the code without rewriting it, wrote a BASIC interpreter
> in 8088 assembly language on the way home.  Gates never returned the gun;
> instead, he hired the guy who lent it to him.  It's my understanding that
> he's currently in charge of Word for Macintosh customer support.

BASIC? 8088 assembly language? You're way off base. I met someone who
hacked into MS's systems, and found all the code was written in LISP. The
mystery of MS software bloat solved at last. To prove it, here are the
last 5 lines of the source of MS-DOS (note that this was written before
IBM decided to put a "]" key on the PC):

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-- 
Philip Machanick             Department of Computer Science
University of the Witwatersrand,   2050 Wits,  South Africa
phone 27(11)716-3309                     fax 27(11)339-7965
http://www.cs.wits.ac.za/~philip/       philip@cs.wits.ac.za

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!macadamia.cs.wits.ac.za!user
From: philip@cs.wits.ac.za (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium...
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Date: 7 Sep 1995 13:43:42 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Wits
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