Re: The IBM PC's slavish devotion to the Apple II

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote in message news:<3EEE3C0B.5080705@noneofyourbusiness.com>...
> Matthew Russotto wrote:
> > In article <3EEDD37A.9010409@somwehere.com>,
> > Rich  <someone@somwehere.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >>I'm not sure what to make of this. Microsoft (actually,
> >>Bill Gates himeself) wrote Apple BASIC, which was on ROM
> >>in each and every Apple ][. Other than that, what did
> >>Microsoft do?
> > 
> > 
> > Microsoft wrote AppleSOFT BASIC.  
> 
> Then why do BOTH companies have copyrights on the BASIC. And why isn't 
> it exactly the same as MS BASIC? (Which would have made it much more 
> like the later GW-BASIC)
> 
> Roy

Really, you can compare apples to apples better, look at the BASIC on
the C64, which was also MS BASIC.

It is the same as the MS BASIC-6502 of 1977, except for some small
added features.

-uso.