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llen said. "It's going to happen! I told you this was going to happen! And we're going to miss it!" They called Ed Roberts, the man who created the Altair, and told him that they had written a version of a programming language called basic for his computer. That wasn't true. It was an early use of a n
ir owners began to do the same thing with Micro-sort's basic. Then, in February of 1976, Gates published "An Open `Z.:. Letter to Hobbyists" in the Altair newsletter, and the letter now stands as a sort of Magna •;; Carta of the software industry--the underpinning of the intellectual--property structur
or it. Because I.B.M. thought that the money was going to be in the hardware, in the computers themselves, it allowed Gates to retain the rights to ms-dos. During the nineteen-eighties, the PC was cloned by other American manufacturers and by the Japanese, who could make and sell the machines more che
llen said. "It's going to happen! I told you this was going to happen! And we're going to miss it!" They called Ed Roberts, the man who created the Altair, and told him that they had written a version of a programming language called basic for his computer. That wasn't true. It was an early use of a no
or it. Because I.B.M. thought that the money was going to be in the hardware, in the =computers themselves, it allowed Gates to retain the rights to ms-dos. =During the nineteen-eighties, the PC was cloned by other American manufacturers and by the Japanese, who could make and sell the machines =more ch
llen said. "It's going to happen! I told you this was going to happen! And we're going to miss it!" They called Ed Roberts, the man who created the Altair, and told him that they had written a version of a programming language called basic for his computer. That wasn't true. It was an early use of a no
or it. Because I.B.M. thought that the money was going to be in the hardware, in the =computers themselves, it allowed Gates to retain the rights to ms-dos. =During the nineteen-eighties, the PC was cloned by other American manufacturers and by the Japanese, who could make and sell the machines =more ch
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