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

["Chuck Morris" <nospam@nospam.net>]

Dosius <steve@dosius.zzn.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > 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.

The bulk of Applesoft Basic was written by Microsoft, hence their copyright.
Apple modified Microsoft's version though to include direct support for
machine specific features such as the graphics, which accounts for their
copyright which covered the modifications themselves.