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cept that there was a pause after each response to think; it was like football players huddling up after each play. There was no beginning or end to Gates' messages--no time wasted on stuff like "Dear" and "Yours"--and I quickly corrected this etiquette breach in my own messages. Nor were there any fi
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
her Reiss This distinction probably goes to Bill Gates who (with Paul Allen) wrote a Basic Interpreter
ss computer programmer? 341 Christopher Reiss This distinction probably goes to Bill Gates who (with Paul Allen) wrote a Basic Interpreter for the Altair in 1975. It fit into a mind-blowing 4K of memory. An entire Ian... Read More ii What is the most heroic thing you have ever done? 1.4k Drew Young
t that there was a pause =after each response to think; it was like football players huddling up =after each play. There was no beginning or end to Gates' messages--no time wasted on stuff like "Dear" and "Yours"--and I quickly corrected this etiquette breach in my own messages. Nor were there any fif
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
t that there was a pause =after each response to think; it was like football players huddling up =after each play. There was no beginning or end to Gates' messages--no time wasted on stuff like "Dear" and "Yours"--and I quickly corrected this etiquette breach in my own messages. Nor were there any fif
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
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