Re: Franklin Ace DOS

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

"Bryan Villados" <news003@macgeek.org> wrote in message news:<IKBFa.48155$49.1441272@twister.socal.rr.com>...
> Interesting!!! Here's another curious question... If I remember correctly,
> Integer BASIC was developed in part by Microsoft, and Applesoft BASIC was
> developed by Apple.
> 
> With that... I've heard dozens of stories about the legal battle between
> Apple and Franklin. I'm wondering why I've never heard of Microsoft chasing
> after Franklin in regards to distributing INTBASIC as part of their release
> of DOS (the DOS Franklin shipped, at least on the original set that came
> with my Franklin Ace 1200, is DOS Version 1.0)?
> 
> --- Bryan

INTBASIC was written (in machine code!) by Steve Wozniak.

FPBASIC (as you can see on the Laser 128 ROM and SimSystem IIe) was
developed at Micro$oft and later enhanced by Apple (the name Randy
Wigginton comes to mind, but I may be wrong), and did appear on
clones.  (Also, look at the Commodore VIC-20/C64 BASIC which is very
similar to Apple BASIC - it's not a coincidence, they are both derived
from the same source tree, as evidenced by the C128's copyright.)

-uso.