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According to Wikipedia, you recall wrong. Gates wrote the interpreter and Allen wrote the emulator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#History http://en.wi
by c2 16y ago
According to Wikipedia, you recall wrong. Gates wrote the interpreter and Allen wrote the emulator:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#History
- rbanffy 16y agoThanks for the correction. I really had the impression Allen had more to do with the BASIC interpreter...
- gwern 16y agoThe _Vanity Fair_ excerpts have Allen writing the emulator, all the other development tools, the loader, and then he wrote 25% of the interpreter itself: http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/05/paul-allen-201105?currentPage=3 http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/05/paul-all...