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Good page! But Bill Gates did not develop BASIC or DOS.
by simula67 11y ago
Good page! But Bill Gates did not develop BASIC or DOS.
- antonpirker 11y agoI know :) It's a trap! (And the real authors are in the list too, but will show up later this year)
- jfaucett 11y agoTrue, DOS was purchased as Q-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, and was adapted to become MS-DOS which was also a copy of CP/M, (http://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/qdos.shtml http://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/qdos.shtml). As far as BASIC goes it was designed in 64 at Dartmought College (http://www.jake.dk/programmering/qbasic/dk/historien.html http://www.jake.dk/programmering/qbasic/dk/historien.html). I think Gates did develop a dialect of it though...
- bluedino 11y agoGates (along with Allen) did however implement BASIC on quite a few machines. BASIC is a very simple interpreted language, but it was technically impressive to get it running on certain machines of the day as well as it opening the doors to countless other people to begin their journey programming.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoWhich is irrelevant because the claim being made is that he created the language.