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I miss those days, and this kind of writing (I didn't actually touch a computer until '78 and that was a PDP-10). Compare the tone and content to Gate's famous

by gumby 3y ago

I miss those days, and this kind of writing (I didn't actually touch a computer until '78 and that was a PDP-10). Compare the tone and content to Gate's famous "An Open Letter to Hobbyists": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

musicale 3y ago
> Computer clubs and individuals from all parts of the United States and the world soon created Tiny BASIC interpreters for the Intel 8080, the Motorola 6800 and MOS Technology 6502 processors. The assembly language source code was published or the software was sold for five or ten dollars. Well played, Mr. Gates. Of course Microsoft eventually supplied a clone of CP/M-86 to IBM, and the rest is history.