Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 06:12:43 -0400 From: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Advocacy <advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010701060843.017bfee8@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <001601c10202$44c16640$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <20010630235936.A90173@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Actually, the BASIC used on the Commodore 64 and VIC-20 was licensed from Microsoft. It said so in the startup screen. This was perhaps the first time I'd ever heard of Microsoft. But my understanding is that it was ported to many different microcomputers. There wasn't such an effort to "lock" users into one platform since Microsoft hadn't yet established a presence of it's own. --Chip Morton At 03:48 AM 7/1/2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >The one thing in that letter that I thought was interesting is the reference >to >_stealing_ BASIC, I haven't seen that one before. That should have got your >warning flag set because when Microsoft was releasing BASIC for the PC, (and >S-100 >CP/M I believe) the code for that was all handwritten assembly language. If >he had developers that did get a public domain assembly language version of >BASIC >they would have had to extensively modify it for whatever computer they >wanted >to run it on, and in the S-100 days there wasn't a "standard" for a computer >like we understand the PC Standard of today, so this claim of stealing BASIC >is pretty much bogus. (IBM as many other computer manufacturers, like >Commodore, also released BASIC rom code and there wasn't any attribution to >Microsoft in it) > > >Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com >Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide >Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4.3.2.7.2.20010701060843.017bfee8>