Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

["Forrest" <bctimes@hotmail.com>]

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.