Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net>]

Forrest wrote:

> phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net> wrote :
> > Well, I'm curious about something. How did Apple get a copyright from
> Microsoft
> > for Applesoft basic. On my //c (march 1984 / pre mac) there is a microsoft
> > registration marker. The show made it sound like Apple didn't even deal
> with
> > Microsoft until the Mac.
>
> Mac predated //c.
> In the beginning there was Integer BASIC.  Apple wanted something more
> sophisticated; after Woz abandoned his own FP BASIC project (some of which I
> think was released in Programmer's Aid #1, but not integrated into the
> language), and after a short fling with the contractor who wrote rather a lot
> of DOS ("Notzo BASIC"), they ended up licensing the 8080 source code to MS
> Basic way back around 1978 and rewrote it in-house for the 6502, adding in
> the HIRES routines at the same time.
>
> >I think the portrayal of Jobs is sorta accurate
>
> Although they left out the charisma.  If a theatrical movie ever comes out
> (it could; there's drama enough for two or three movies about Apple) I'd cast
> Tom Cruise -- he's got the Stare.

Actually I knew all that. I was being sarcastic as the movie made it seem like
Apple and Microsoft had very limited relations. Just how I saw it.

Phoenyx