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lol. Basic was made by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. How were they ahead of the curve? By implementing a GUI well after Appl
by soperj 3y ago
lol. Basic was made by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963.
How were they ahead of the curve? By implementing a GUI well after Apple had stolen the designs from Xerox?
Microsoft didn't even write the port of qDos for the IBM PC, they had to get Tim Paterson from SCP to write it for them.
- m00x 3y agoI meant a BASIC interpreter for the Altair, but HN won't let me edit post. There's no doubt that Gates is a capable programmer. Microsoft was successful for a reason. They were much faster, and better than other computers. They demolished the personal computer market for decades.