Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 16:17:25 -0600 (MDT) From: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com>, FreeBSD Advocacy <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107011913210.72460-100000@beastie.saturn-tech.com> In-Reply-To: <3B3F9F23.FF02A317@softweyr.com>
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On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Wes Peters wrote: > was. It was well accepted at the time that Microsoft BASIC was what > we'd now call a "port" of the original PDP-11 (IIRC) BASIC interpreter > to run on the 8080. ... > later Commodore machines and the 6809 on the Radio Shack Color > Computer. I think they wrote the cartridge basic for the TI-99 also, > but I'm not certain of that. The BASIC interpreter on the TI-99/4 or /4A was built in. You just had more memory available if you had a cartridge in the slot. :) I don't think Microsoft wrote that BASIC, but I'm not certain either. I've got all my TI-99/4A documentation around here somewhere. Now I've become curious and I want to go look it up. :) > To do so would have made no sense, since Microsoft didn't yet have a > platform to lock people onto. Life was more complicated, and yet so > much better, in those days. So very much better.... Later...... <Doug> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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