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Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

Subject: Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
From: jimbo@radiks.net (Jim Lawless)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 03:45:54 GMT
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On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:51:56 GMT, 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*...
>

...like Gordon Eubanks' CBASIC ...

Shepardson Microsystems Inc. actually adapted a BASIC they had built
for the Cromemco into Atari BASIC ( for the 400/800 ); they didn't use
the purchased Microsoft 6502 BASIC listing they had in their
possession.

Jim Lawless
jimbo@radiks.net
http://www.radiks.net/~jimbo

References:
- Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: pap3@dana.ucc.nau.edu (Paul Allen Panks)
- Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net>
- Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: "Dave Althoff, Jr." <dalloff@gcfn.org>
- Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net>

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