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

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <3EEDD37A.9010409@somwehere.com>,
Rich  <someone@somwehere.com> wrote:
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>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.  Which was on ROM in each and every
Apple ][+.  Woz wrote Apple Basic, later renamed Integer Basic, which
was in ROM on the Apple ][ (no plus).

Microsoft later successfully killed Macintosh Basic by holding the
Applesoft Basic license (expiring after 6 years, 6 months, and 6 days)
hostage.

>Are you thinking of the PowerPC? Maybe so, maybe not. The
>68K was not a bad chip, and there is no reason why it
>could not have been developed further. 

Well, there was a reason, and it's the same reason the G4 is falling
furtherbehind.  Motorola.
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Matthew T. Russotto                            mrussotto@speakeasy.net
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