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In 1988 a Commodore 64 was still a thing. It ran Microsoft Basic. And .Net was slowly being built. Bill Gates has some wild ideas.
by misterman0 8y ago
In 1988 a Commodore 64 was still a thing. It ran Microsoft Basic. And .Net was slowly being built. Bill Gates has some wild ideas.
- nurettin 8y agoI had a C= 64, but didn't know it ran Microsoft Basic. All I saw was "all rights reserved" and "32kb ram ready".
- nurettin 8y agoapparently you can run the following on a commodore shell for a Microsoft easter egg: WAIT 6502,0
- mschaef 8y agoCute, but it would be super annoying these days if a platform vendor picked some otherwise completely legitimate value out of an API's parameter domain and used it for an easter egg... (Yes, you can wait for a value in any of 65,535 memory locations... but not this one, because we needed an easter egg...)
- misterman0 8y agoUnfortunately that command is not supported in [0]. What does it do? [0] https://virtualconsoles.com/online-emulators/c64/ https://virtualconsoles.com/online-emulators/c64/
- dangerbird2 8y agoIt seems like it was only in Commodore PET Basic. It would print `MICROSOFT!` https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Microsoft#Easter_Egg_.28Microsoft.21.29 https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Microsoft#Easter_Egg_.28Micros...
- dangerbird2 8y agoMicrosoft wrote the Basic implementations for most of the early consumer microcomputers. Commodore's microcomputers, Apple II, IBM PC, and others all had a Microsoft Basic implementation built into ROM.
- goto11 8y agoAs far as I can tell, this has nothing to do with .net. They just re-used the name.
- misterman0 8y agoThe work they did on C# in the eighties where they tried to come up with a way for programmers to to program (control) Windows, has nothing to do with .Net you mean, not even as a tangent?
- johngossman 8y agoExtreme tangent. Microsoft started as a language company and some of the same people were still around.