James E. Henderson wrote:
Even before DOS, Micro-Soft had a BASIC interpreter they developed from a public domain research project into proprietary software using "borrowed" time on a mainframe system. Their BASIC ran under the CP/M operating system developed by Digital Research, a company Micro-Soft soon destroyed.
The story goes that Bill Gates stole BASIC from someone in a university he attended. So, apparently, M$ didn't event write any of their versions of BASIC.
Wish I could find the link I once had showing the history of M$ products. PGA -- Paul G. Allen, BSIT/SE Owner, Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting Services www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
