Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

["Sam Gillett" <samgillett@msn.com>]

Paul Schlyter wrote ...

>In article <3E2C7D44.84B41CF2@ev1.net>,
>Charles Richmond  <richmond@ev1.net> wrote:
>> That is assuming that some other person would *not* have come
>> up with a microcomputer BASIC. Personally, I think that someone
>> else would have developed a BASIC if Gates and company had *not*...
>
>"Would"?  Someone else DID!!!
>
>The first Apple II's were delivered with the non-Microsoft Integer
>Basic, written by Steve Wozniak.  The Integer Basic ROM's also
>contained floating-point routines, and if Apple hadn't bought
>Applesoft from Microsoft, then Wozniak would no doubt have expanded
>his Integer Basic to also do floating-point.

Let's not forget to mention Borland.  At one time Borland had a version of
Basic that competed quite nicely with Microsoft's Basic.  Borland also had
their own implementation of the C language, and later C+.  For a number of
years Borland gave Microsoft some very stiff competition in the area of
programming languages/compilers.

Best regards,

Sam Gillett aka Mars Probe @ Starship Intrepid 1-972-221-4088
     Last 8-bit BBS in the Dallas area.  Commodore lives!